Research Catalog

Title

Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power / Alexis Dudden.

Author

Dudden, Alexis, 1969-

Publication

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2005.

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Description

x, 215 p. : ill., port.; 24 cm.

Summary

"From its creation in the early twentieth-century, policymakers used the discourse of international law to legitimate Japan's empire. Although the Japanese state aggrandizers' reliance on this discourse did not create the imperial nation Japan would become, their fluent use of its terms inscribed Japan's claims as legal practice within Japan and abroad. Focusing on Japan's annexation of Korea in 1910, Alexis Dudden gives long-needed attention to the intellectual history of the empire and brings to light presumptions of the twentieth century's so-called international system by describing its most powerful - and most often overlooked - member's engagement with that system." "This landmark study greatly enhances our understanding of the intellectual underpinnings of Japan's imperial aspirations. Carefully researched and cogently argued, it makes clear that, even before Japan annexed Korea, it had embarked on a legal and often legislating mission to make its colonization legitimate in the eyes of the world. In so doing, Tokyo's early twentieth-century policy makers confirmed Japan's place in the international history of empire."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• ebrary.
• Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Subject

• Chōsen Kōgei Kenkyūkai
• I hwa yeo ja dae hag gyo Han gug saeng hwal gwa hag yeon gu won
• 1864-1945
• Geschichte 1905-1945
• Law > Japan > History
• Law > Korea > History
• Korea > History > Japanese occupation, 1910-1945
• Japan > Foreign relations > Korea
• Korea > Foreign relations > Japan
• Japan > Foreign relations > 1868-1912
• Korea > Foreign relations > 1864-1910
• Korea > International status

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-208) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Illegal Korea -- International terms of engagement -- The vocabulary of power -- Voices of dissent -- Mission législatrice -- Coda : a knowledgeable empire.

ISBN

0824828291 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004017575

OCLC

• 56347620
• SCSB-10039159

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library