Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Placing Empireexamines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the early 1950s. In a departure from standard histories of Japan, this book shows how debates over the role of colonized lands reshaped the social and spatial imaginary of the modern Japanese nation and how, in turn, this sociospatial imaginary affected the ways in which colonial difference was conceptualized and enacted. The book thus illuminates how ideas of place became central to the production of new forms of colonial hierarchy as empires around the globe transitioned from an era of territorial acquisition to one of territorial maintenance. Cover......Page 1 Series page......Page 2 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Dedication......Page 8 Index......Page 10 List of Illustrations......Page 12 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 14 Introduction......Page 20 2 The New Territories......Page 69 1 Seeing Like the Nation......Page 44 Part Two The Geography of Cultural Pluralism......Page 100 3 Boundary Narratives......Page 102 4 Local Color......Page 122 5 Speaking Japanese......Page 154 Conclusion......Page 179 Table 3......Page 196 Notes......Page 200 Selected Bibliography......Page 240 Map 1......Page 39 Map 2......Page 40 Map 3......Page 41 Figure 1......Page 31 Figure 2......Page 56 Figure 3......Page 58 Figure 4......Page 84 Figure 5......Page 86 Figure 6......Page 88 Figure 7......Page 90 Figure 8......Page 123 Figure 9......Page 142 Figure 10......Page 145 Figure 11......Page 150 Figure 12......Page 177 Figure 13......Page 186 Figure 14......Page 187 Table 1......Page 78 Table 2......Page 79