Lost histories : : recovering the lives of Japan's colonial peoples / / Kirsten L. Ziomek.

"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...

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 418
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 418.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 406 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Boundaries of late Meiji colonial subjecthood
  • 1. Colonial reality and subaltern subjectivity
  • 2. Meeting the man on the other side
  • 3. The paupers' grave at Margravine Cemetery
  • 4. Welcome to the empire
  • Part II. Journeys between the metropole and the colonies
  • 5. The taming of the barbarian and other savage love stories
  • 6. Two coconuts and a bonito stick
  • Part III. Performing and living racial-alities
  • 7. Creating space, dividing barriers
  • 8. A mountain of bones.