Japan''s Imperial Underworlds - Intimate Encounters At the Borders of Empire

List of contents

Introduction: border agents; 1. Treaty ports and traffickers: children's bodies, regional markets, and the making of national space; 2. In the Antlion's pit: abduction narratives and marriage migration between Japan and Fuqing; 3. Embodying the borderland in the Taiwan Strait: Nakamura Sueko as runaway woman and pirate Queen; 4. Borders in blood, water, and ink: And¿ Sakan's intimate mappings of the South China Sea; 5. Epilogue: ruptures, returns, and re-openings.

About the author

David R. Ambaras is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His publications include Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). He has received fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Summary

Vivid accounts of human experience at the margins of empire shed new light on Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This study centers on categories of people not usually considered in the context of East Asian mobility of the period, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate.

Product details

• Authors: David R. Ambaras, David R. (North Carolina State University Ambaras, David R. (North Carolina State University) Ambaras, Ambaras David R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108455220
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45522-0
• No. of pages: 299
• Series: Asian Connections
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Japan, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Asia / General, Society & culture: general, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, Asian History, General and world history, Society and culture: general, History and Archaeology