Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan

274 Pages·2017·15.987 MB·English

by  Kate McDonald

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Placing Empire
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of
the Philip E. Lilienthal Asian Studies Endowment Fund of the
University of California Press Foundation, which was established
by a major gift from Sally Lilienthal.
Placing Empire
Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan
Kate McDonald
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© 2017 by Kate McDonald
Suggested citation: McDonald, Kate. Placing Empire: Travel and the Social
Imagination in Imperial Japan. Oakland: University of California Press,
2017. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.34
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This project was supported in part by funding from the University of
California Presidential Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities,
MR-15-328710.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: McDonald, Kate, 1981- author.
Title: Placing empire : travel and the social imagination in imperial Japan /
   Kate McDonald.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] |
   Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017009063 (print) | LCCN 2017012735 (ebook) | ISBN
   9780520967236 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520293915 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Tourism--Japan--20th century. | Tourism--Political
   aspects--Japan--20th century. | Japan--Colonies--Description and
   travel--20th century. | Korea--Description and travel--20th century. |
   Manchuria (China)--Description and travel--20th century. |
   Taiwan--Description and travel--20th century.
Classification: LCC G155.J27 (ebook) | LCC G155.J27 M44 2017 (print) |
DDC    306.4/819089956051--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009063
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For Max
For, whatever else it may be, nationalism always involves a struggle
for land, or an assertion about rights to land; and the nation, almost
by definition, requires a territorial base in which to take root and
fulfill the needs of its members.
—anthony d. smith
It’s not just like Japan. It is Japan.
—arakawa seijirō, upon disembarking at the port of pusan,
korea (1918)
Contents
List of Illustrations xi
Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 1
part i. the geography of civilization
1. Seeing Like the Nation 25
2. The New Territories 50
part ii. the geography of cultural pluralism
3. Boundary Narratives 83
4. Local Color 103
5. Speaking Japanese 135
Conclusion 160
Appendix: Place Names 177
Notes 181
Selected Bibliography 221
Index 245