Japan and the Specter of Imperialism [electronic resource] /
Anderson, M.author.
Japan and the Specter of Imperialism examines competing Japanese responses to the late nineteenth century unequal treaty regime as a confrontation with liberal imperialism, including the culture and gender politics of US territorial expansion into the Pacific.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The Ansei treaties and the specter of imperialism -- John Luther Long's Madame Butterfly and imperial domesticity -- The science of making men : moral fitness for global competition -- Imperial aesthetics and the state in Meiji Japan -- Aesthetics and the moral capital of the family state -- Capitalist governmentality and melodramatic resistance in Ozaki Kôyô's Konjiki yasha -- Haga Yaichi's institution of classical Japanese literature : national community, governmentality, and colonial domesticity.
Japan and the Specter of Imperialism examines competing Japanese responses to the late nineteenth century unequal treaty regime as a confrontation with liberal imperialism, including the culture and gender politics of US territorial expansion into the Pacific.
World politics.
Asia—History.
Ethnology—Asia.
Diplomacy.
Imperialism.
Political theory.
Political History.
Asian History.
Asian Culture.
Diplomacy.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
Political Theory.