"Outcasts of Empire probes the limits of modern nation-state sovereignty by positioning colonial Taiwan at the intersection of the declining Qing and ascending Japanese empires. Paul D. Barclay chronicles the lives and times of interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators along the far edges of the expanding international system, an area known as Taiwan's "savage border." In addition, he boldly asserts the interpenetration of industrial capitalism and modern ethnic identities. By the 1930s, three decades into Japanese imperial rule, mechanized warfare and bulk commodity production rendered superfluous a whole class of mediators--among them, Kondo "the Barbarian" Katsusaburo, Pan Bunkiet, and Iwan Robao. Even with these unreliable allies safely cast aside, the Japanese empire lacked the resources to integrate indigenous Taiwan into the rest of the colony. The empire, therefore, created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commoditization of culture"--Provided by publisher.
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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.
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"Outcasts of Empire . . . challenges the limits of the international system and state sovereignty, explores interlocking forces of colonialism, historical processes of indigenisation, colonial boundaries, and governance through a detailed narrative history of outcasts at the empire-dynastys periphery. . . . Its a must-read for readers who want to familiarise themselves with contemporary history and indigenous peoples in the Taiwanese context." * International Journal of Taiwan Studies * "The book is a highly recommended reading not only for researchers in East Asian studies but also scholars with a special interest in interdisciplinary research." * China Journal * "Outcasts of Empire has inaugurated a most welcome turn to theoretically informed indigenous studies. . . . [ and] lays the ground for sophisticated work in and beyond East Asian studies." * Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies *
List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction: Empires and Indigenous Peoples, Global Transformation and the
Limits of International Society
PART ONE. THE ANATOMY OF A REBELLION
1. From Wet Diplomacy to Scorched Earth: The Taiwan Expedition, the
Guardline, and the Wushe Rebellion
2. The Longue Durée and the Short Circuit: Gender, Language, and Territory
in the Making of Indigenous Taiwan
PART TWO. INDIGENOUS MODERNITY
3. Tangled Up in Red: Textiles, Trading Posts, and Ethnic Bifurcation in
Taiwan
4. The Geobodies within a Geobody: The Visual Economy of Race Making and
Indigeneity
Notes
Glossary
Index
Paul D. Barclay is Associate Professor of History at Lafayette College. He is also General Editor of the East Asia Image Collection, an open-access online digital repository of historical materials.
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