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Author Cai, Huiyu.

Title Taiwan in Japan's empire building : an institutional approach to colonial engineering / Hui-yu Caroline Ts'ai
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 323 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Academia Sinica on East Asia
Academia Sinica on East Asia.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Appendices; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I Law, order, and colonial governance; 1 "Rule by law"; 2 The Emperor's servants; 3 The "police as lord"; Part II Colonial engineering; 4 Colonial governmentality; 5 Social engineering; 6 Creating the local; Part III War, mobilization, and legacy; 7 The "Emperor's subjects"; 8 Bringing war back into history; 9 Politics of memory and history; Conclusion; Appendix 1 Governors-General of Taiwan, 1895-1945; Appendix 2 Governors-General of Korea, 1910-45
Summary This book illuminates Japan's colonial administration at work in general, and the role of Taiwan in the context of Japan's colonial empire-making in particular
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2020)
Subject Social control -- Taiwan -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
Colonies
Social control
SUBJECT Japan -- Taiwan -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century
Taiwan -- History -- 1895-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85131990
Subject Japan
Taiwan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203888759
0203888758