Research Catalog

Title

The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 / Sidney Xu Lu.

Author

Lu, Sidney Xu, 1981-

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Details

Description

xiv, 310 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This innovative study demonstrates how Japanese empire-builders invented and appropriated the discourse of overpopulation to justify Japanese settler colonialism across the Pacific. Lu defines this overpopulation discourse as 'Malthusian expansionism'. This was a set of ideas that demanded additional land abroad to accommodate the supposed surplus people in domestic society on the one hand and emphasized the necessity of national population growth on the other. Lu delineates ideological ties, human connections and institutional continuities between Japanese colonial migration in Asia and Japanese migration to Hawaii and North and South America from 1868 to 1961. He further places Malthusian expansionism at the center of the logic of modern settler colonialism, challenging the conceptual division between migration and settler colonialism in global history"--

Series Statement

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Subjects

• Japan
• Demographic transition
• Since 1800
• Japan > Foreign relations > 1868-
• Emigration and immigration
• Diplomatic relations
• Japan > Colonies > History > 19th century
• Japan > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century
• Malthusianism
• Demographic transition > Japan
• Japan > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century
• Japan > Colonies > History > 20th century
• History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Malthusian expansion and settler colonialism : Japan in global history -- Japanese settler colonialism in Hokkaido and North America and the rise of Malthusian expansionism -- Chinese exclusion in the U.S. and the Japanese expansion to the South Seas, Hawai'i and Latin America -- The First Sino-Japanese War and the Japanese labor migration to the U.S. -- Japanese rice cultivation in Texas and the paradigm shift of Malthusian expansionism -- "Carrying the white man's burden" : the Japanese American enlightenment campaign and the rise of Japanese farmer migration to Brazil -- The marriage of Malthusian expansionism and Japanese agrarianism and the creation of the migration state -- Nagano migration and the illusion of co-existence and co-prosperity in Japanese settler colonialism in Brazil and Manchuria -- The resurgence of Japanese migration to South America and the decline of Malthusian expansionism -- Conclusion: Re-thinking migration and settler colonialism in the modern world.

Call Number

JFE 19-11349

ISBN

• 9781108482424
• 1108482422
• 9781108622257 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2019012169
• 40029373567

OCLC

1081431114

Author

Lu, Sidney Xu, 1981- author.

Title

The making of Japanese settler colonialism : Malthusianism and trans-Pacific migration, 1868-1961 / Sidney Xu Lu.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

Since 1800

Other Form:

Ebook version : 9781108622257

Other Standard Identifier

40029373567

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11349