David R. Ambaras

Japan's Imperial Underworlds

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781108455220
• ISBN-10: 1108455220
• Artikelnr.: 56894286

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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: And¿ Sakan's intimate mappings of the South China Sea; 5. Epilogue:
ruptures, returns, and re-openings.