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Lost histories : recovering the lives of Japan's colonial peoples /

"Examines material objects, visual imagery, and oral histories to help reconstruct the lives and movements of the four least examined groups of Japan's colonial subjects--the Ainu, Taiwan's indigenous people, Micronesians, and Okinawans--conveying the dynamic nature of an empire in mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ziomek, Kirsten L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2019.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 418.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Boundaries of late Meiji colonial subjecthood. Colonial reality and subaltern subjectivity
  • Meeting the man on the other side
  • The paupers' grave at Margravine Cemetery
  • Welcome to the empire
  • Part II. Journeys between the metropole and the colonies. The taming of the barbarian and other savage love stories
  • Two coconuts and a bonito stick
  • Part III. Performing and living racial-alities. Dividing space, creating barriers
  • A mountain of bones
  • Conclusion.