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020			_a9781108470117
082			_a303.98 RIC
100			_a Ambaras, David Richard.
245			_aJapan's imperial underworlds : _bintimate encounters at the borders of empire.
250			_a11th ed.
260			_aNew York : _bUniversity Printing House, _c2018.
300			_axiii, 281 p. : _bill. ; _c21 cm.
504			_aInclude index
520			_aThis major new study uses vivid accounts of encounters between Chinese and Japanese people living at the margins of empire to elucidate Sino-Japanese relations in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each chapter explores mobility in East Asia through the histories of often ignored categories of people, including trafficked children, peddlers, 'abducted' women and a female pirate. These stories reveal the shared experiences of the border populations of Japan and China and show how they fundamentally shaped the territorial boundaries that defined Japan's imperial world and continue to inform present-day views of China. From Meiji-era treaty ports to the Taiwan Strait, South China, and French Indochina, the movements of people in marginal locations not only destabilized the state's policing of geographical borders and social boundaries, but also stimulated fantasies of furthering imperial power.
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