Introduction: border agents; 1. Treaty ports and traffickers: children's bodies, regional markets, and the making of national space; 2. In the Antlion's pit: abduction narratives and marriage migration between Japan and Fuqing; 3. Embodying the borderland in the Taiwan Strait: Nakamura Sueko as runaway woman and pirate Queen; 4. Borders in blood, water, and ink: Andō Sakan's intimate mappings of the South China Sea; 5. Epilogue: ruptures, returns, and re-openings.
Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country's people living at the margins of empire.
David R. Ambaras is Associate Professor of History at North Carolina State University. His publications include Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Japan (2006). He has received fellowships from the National Humanities Center and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
'Japan's Imperial Underworlds is an extraordinary piece of
scholarship. David R. Ambaras reconstructs marginal lives -
including those of pirates, peddlers, and child abductors - on the
maritime edge of the Japanese empire. The world he evokes is
unfamiliar and unforgettable; and as a framework for understanding
modern Sino-Japanese relations, the book is an absolute must-read.'
Martin Dusinberre, University of Zurich
'Through vivid microhistories, Japan's Imperial Underworlds redraws
the social and political boundaries of empire in modern East Asia.
Ambaras deftly reveals how the movement of migrants, smugglers,
pirates, and trafficked people between China and Japan - and their
sensationalization in the popular press - created surprising
cross-currents in the politics of Sino-Japanese relations during
the years of Japanese imperial expansion.' Jordan Sand, Georgetown
University, Washington, DC
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