Outcasts of Empire: Japan’s Rule on Taiwan’s “Savage Border,” 1874-1945 (Asia Pacific Modern)

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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” right through 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 in the end enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to deal with their chiefly status. Even with reluctant “allies” marginalized, then again, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan’s indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state subsequently created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to these days as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.

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