Rule by Association : Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912
Hennessey, John LU
(2018)
In Linnaeus University Dissertations
310.
- Abstract
- This dissertation argues that during the latter half of the long nineteenth century, colonial powers around the world co-produced a “global trans-imperial culture” that was facilitated by a common knowledge infrastructure, including international congresses, trans-imperial scholarly exchange and expositions. Japan was an important member of this “colonial club” and was deeply engaged with evolving global colonial discourse and practice throughout this period.
The dissertation has three interrelated aims. First, it applies new theories of inter-imperial exchange and cooperation to the Japanese Empire. Second, it works to dismantle persistent notions of Japan as a marginal latecomer to the community of imperial powers by... (More) - This dissertation argues that during the latter half of the long nineteenth century, colonial powers around the world co-produced a “global trans-imperial culture” that was facilitated by a common knowledge infrastructure, including international congresses, trans-imperial scholarly exchange and expositions. Japan was an important member of this “colonial club” and was deeply engaged with evolving global colonial discourse and practice throughout this period.
The dissertation has three interrelated aims. First, it applies new theories of inter-imperial exchange and cooperation to the Japanese Empire. Second, it works to dismantle persistent notions of Japan as a marginal latecomer to the community of imperial powers by demonstrating that Japan engaged with trans-imperially circulating discourses and practices from as early as 1868 and contributed to the development of the culture as a whole. Finally, it employs a series of case studies to illustrate how colonial knowledge was transferred across imperial boundaries: the transmission of American technologies of settler colonialism to Hokkaido in the 1870s, domestic and international debates over the “colonial” status of Taiwan around the turn of the twentieth century and the representation of Japan’s colonial territories at expositions in the 1910s. Throughout the dissertation, theories of colonial association, an anti-assimilationist approach to colonial administration that became popular in the late nineteenth century, serve as a kind of overarching case study that illuminates the consistency and “timeliness” of Japanese colonial discourse and undermine the common assumption that Japan had a unique colonial assimilation policy throughout its imperial history. (Less)
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