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Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police & Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia (World of East Asia)
Associate Professor Of East Asian History Erik Esselstrom
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Description for Crossing Empire's Edge: Foreign Ministry Police & Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia (World of East Asia)
Hardcover. Describes how the Gaimusho police became deeply involved in the surveillance and suppression of the Korean independence movement in exile throughout Chinese treaty ports and the Manchurian frontier during the 1920s and 1930s. This book offers an interpretation of Japanese expansionism. Series: World of East Asia. Num Pages: 264 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JKSW1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Japan's informal empire on the Asian continent. Charged with 'protecting and controlling' local Japanese communities first in Korea and later in China, these consular police played a critical role in facilitating Japanese imperial expansion during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Remarkably, however, this police force remains largely unknown. ""Crossing Empire's Edge"" is the first book in English to reveal its complex history.Based on extensive analysis of both archival and recently published Japanese sources, Erik Esselstrom ... Read more
For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Japan's informal empire on the Asian continent. Charged with 'protecting and controlling' local Japanese communities first in Korea and later in China, these consular police played a critical role in facilitating Japanese imperial expansion during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Remarkably, however, this police force remains largely unknown. ""Crossing Empire's Edge"" is the first book in English to reveal its complex history.Based on extensive analysis of both archival and recently published Japanese sources, Erik Esselstrom ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Condition
New
Series
World of East Asia
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Honolulu, HI, United States
ISBN
9780824832315
SKU
V9780824832315
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About Associate Professor Of East Asian History Erik Esselstrom
Erik Esselstrom is assistant professor of East Asian history at the University of Vermont.
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