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In The Global Vanguard - Agrarian Development And The Making Of Modern Taiwan

by Prof. James Lin

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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 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.225">www.luminosoa.org</a> to learn more. In just half a century, Taiwan transformed from an agricultural colony into an economic power, spurred by efforts of the authoritarian Republic of China government in land reform, farmers associations, and improved crop varieties. Yet overlooked is how Taiwan brought these practices to the developing world. In the Global Vanguard elucidates the history and impact of the "Taiwan model" of agrarian development by incorporating how Taiwanese experts took the country’s agrarian success and exported it throughout rural communities across Africa and Southeast Asia. Driven by the global Cold War and challenges to the Republic of China’s legitimacy, Taiwanese agricultural technicians and scientists shared their practices, which they claimed were better suited for poor, tropical societies in the developing world. These development missions, James Lin argues, were projected in Taiwan as proof of the ruling government’s modernity and technical prowess and were crucial to how the state sought to hold onto its contested position in the international system and its rule by martial law at home.
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The Narrowing Sea - Fukuoka, Pusan, And The Rise And Fall Of An Imperial Region

by Hannah Shepherd

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 In The Narrowing Sea, Hannah Shepherd examines the shared histories of Pusan and Fukuoka over the eight decades from Japan's forced opening of Korea's ports in 1876 to the end of the Korean War in 1953. One city was Korean, the other Japanese; one was a burgeoning colonial port, the other a provincial city buoyed by imperial expansion. Wars, colonization, and capitalist industrialization forged intimate connections between the two, knitting together an imperial region that transcended its maritime boundaries. Drawing on both Japanese and Korean archives, and emphasizing the concept of imperial urbanization, Shepherd challenges traditional views of empire and urban growth and shows how local networks, migration, and capital flows shaped the region's exploitative and uneven geographies. The waters between Fukuoka and Pusan narrowed through intensified interactions that continued even after the end of empire, creating enduring legacies for the postwar and postcolonial eras.
Provincializing Empire - Omi Merchants In The Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

by Jun Uchida

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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 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.144">www.luminosoa.org</a> to learn more. Provincializing Empire explores the global history of Japanese expansion through a regional lens. It rethinks the nation-centered geography and chronology of empire by uncovering the pivotal role of expeditionary merchants from mi (present-day Shiga Prefecture) and their modern successors. Tracing their lives from the early modern era, and writing them into the global histories of empire, diaspora, and capitalism, Jun Uchida offers an innovative analysis of expansion through a story previously untold: how the nation's provincials built on their traditions to create a transpacific diaspora that stretched from Seoul to Vancouver, while helping shape the modern world of transoceanic exchange.
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State'S Sexuality - Prostitution And Postcolonial Nation Building In South Korea

by Park Jeong-Mi

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 The State's Sexuality uncovers how the lives and work of women engaged in prostitution, long considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the lofty purpose of building South Korea's postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated, contradictory patchwork of laws and regulations, which Park Jeong-Mi conceptualizes as a "toleration-regulation regime," the South Korean state did not merely exclude sex workers from ordinary citizenship; it also mobilized them for national security, national development, and the making of a gendered citizenry. In the process, the newly independent state was constructed, augmented, and consolidated. Sex workers often protested such draconian policies and sometimes utilized state apparatuses to get recognition as citizens. Based on expansive, meticulous archival research and sophisticated interpretation of historical records and women's voices, Park rewrites the dynamic history of South Korea from 1945 to the present through the lens of prostitution.
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North Korea'S Mundane Revolution - Socialist Living And The Rise Of Kim Il Sung, 1953-1965

by Andre Schmid

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 When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the myriad ways the Korean population participated in party-state projects to rebuild their lives and country after the devastation of the war. North Korea's Mundane Revolution traces the origins of the country's long-term durability in the questions that Korean women and men raised about the modern individual, housing, family life, and consumption. Using a wide range of overlooked sources, Andre Schmid examines the formation of a gendered socialist lifestyle in North Korea by focusing on the localized processes of socioeconomic and cultural change. This style of "New Living" replaced radical definitions of gender and class revolution with the politics of individual self-reform and cultural elevation, leading to a depoliticization of the country's political culture in the very years that Kim Il Sung rose to power.
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Imperial Genus - The Formation And Limits Of The Human In Modern Korea And Japan

by Travis Workman

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 How were concepts of the human's genus-being operative in the discourses of the Japanese empire? How did they inform the imagination and representation of modernity in colonial Korea? This title deals with these queries.
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Outcasts Of Empire - Japan''S Rule On Taiwan''S "Savage Border," 1874-1945

by Paul D. Barclay

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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 <a href="https://www.luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.41/" target="_blank">www.luminosoa.org</a> to learn more. Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to "batter down all Chinese walls" in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s "savage border" during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prominence and faded to obscurity in concert with a series of "long nineteenth century" global transformations. Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with reluctant "allies" marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan’s indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.
Tropics Of Savagery - The Culture Of Japanese Empire In Comparative Frame

by Robert Thomas Tierney

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 A study of the figures and tropes of 'savagery' in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, it demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed its own identity in relation both to the West and to the people it colonized.
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The Narrowing Sea - Fukuoka, Pusan, And The Rise And Fall Of An Imperial Region

by Hannah Shepherd

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In The Global Vanguard - Agrarian Development And The Making Of Modern Taiwan

by Prof. James Lin

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North Koreaâ€™S Mundane Revolution - Socialist Living And The Rise Of Kim Il Sung, 1953â€“1965

by Andre Schmid

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Outcasts Of Empire - Japan'S Rule On Taiwan'S Savage Border, 1874-1945

by Paul D. Barclay

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Bibliotactics - Libraries And The Colonial Public In Vietnam

by Cindy Anh Nguyen

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Bibliotactics - Libraries And The Colonial Public In Vietnam

by Cindy Anh Nguyen

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The Narrowing Sea - Fukuoka, Pusan, And The Rise And Fall Of An Imperial Region

by Hannah Shepherd

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The State'S Sexuality - Prostitution And Postcolonial Nation Building In South Korea

by Park Jeong-Mi

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The State'S Sexuality - Prostitution And Postcolonial Nation Building In South Korea

by Park Jeong-Mi

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North Koreaâ€™S Mundane Revolution - Socialist Living And The Rise Of Kim Il Sung, 1953â€“1965

by Andre Schmid

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Provincializing Empire - Omi Merchants In The Japanese Transpacific Diaspora

by Jun Uchida

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In Search Of Our Frontier - Japanese America And Settler Colonialism In The Construction Of Japanâ€™S Borderless Empire

by Eiichiro Azuma

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Separating Sheep From Goats - Sherman E. Lee And Chinese Art Collecting In Postwar America

by Noelle Giuffrida

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Ism, Ism, Ism / Ismo, Ismo, Ismo - Experimental Cinema In Latin America

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Sanitized Sex - Regulating Prostitution, Venereal Disease, And Intimacy In Occupied Japan, 1945-1952

by Robert Kramm

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Who Will Lead Us? - The Story Of Five Hasidic Dynasties In America

by Samuel C. Heilman

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 Revolving around the central figure of the rebbe, this book explores two families with too few successors, two with too many successors, and one that believes their last rebbe continues to lead them even after his death.
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