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Outcasts of Empire unveils the causes and consequences of capitalism’s failure to “batter down all Chinese walls” in modern Taiwan. Adopting micro- and macrohistorical perspectives, Paul D. Barclay argues that the interpreters, chiefs, and trading-post operators who mediated state-society relations on Taiwan’s “savage border” during successive Qing and Japanese regimes rose to prominence and faded to obscurity in concert with a series of “long nineteenth century” global transformations.
 
Superior firepower and large economic reserves ultimately enabled Japanese statesmen to discard mediators on the border and sideline a cohort of indigenous headmen who played both sides of the fence to maintain their chiefly status. Even with reluctant “allies” marginalized, however, the colonial state lacked sufficient resources to integrate Taiwan’s indigenes into its disciplinary apparatus. The colonial state therefore created the Indigenous Territory, which exists to this day as a legacy of Japanese imperialism, local initiatives, and the global commodification of culture.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title
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  1. Copyright
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  1. Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. List of Illustrations and Tables
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  1. Acknowledgments
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  1. Note on Transliteration and Translation
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  1. Introduction: Empires and Indigenous Peoples, Global Transformation and the Limits of International Society
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  1. Part One. The Anatomy of a Rebellion
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  1. 1. From Wet Diplomacy to Scorched Earth: The Taiwan Expedition, the Guardline, and the Wushe Rebellion
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  1. 2. The Longue Durée and the Short Circuit: Gender, Language, and Territory in the Making of Indigenous Taiwan
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  1. Part Two. Indigenous Modernity
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  1. 3. Tangled Up in Red: Textiles, Trading Posts, and Ethnic Bifurcation in Taiwan
  2. pp. 161-189
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  1. 4. The Geobodies within a Geobody: The Visual Economy of Race Making and Indigeneity
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  1. Notes
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  1. Glossary
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  1. Index
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