Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power - The University of Adelaide

Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power - The University of Adelaide

Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power

Dudden, Alexis, 1969-; c2005

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Barr Smith Library

Available , Main collection 951.903 D844j

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Title

Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power

Author

Dudden, Alexis, 1969- 

Subjects

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

Description

"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."

--BOOK JACKET.

Contents

1. Illegal Korea -- 

2. International terms of engagement -- 

3. The vocabulary of power -- 

4. Voices of dissent -- 

5. Mission legislatrice -- 

Coda : a knowledgeable empire.

Publisher

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press

Format

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

Language

English

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