Imperial Gateway w/ Seiji Shirane

UW Taiwan Studies

The UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Seiji Shirane to discuss his newly published monograph, Imperial Gateway.

Room 332, Husky Union Building (The HUB), University of Washington

Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan&#x27;s Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945Book Talk with Seiji Shirane (Assistant Professor of Japanese History at the City College of New York)Available in-person (Room 332, The HUB, UW) &amp; onlineY﻿outube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crtWRFTU-5sF﻿acebook: https://fb.me/e/2vfpi2pZc*﻿RSVP requested for both in-person and online attendanceThe UW Taiwan Studies Program will welcome Professor Seiji Shirane to discuss his newly published monograph, Imperial Gateway. Shirane&#x27;s book explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan&#x27;s empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, the book uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers. Japanese officials in Taiwan did not simply take orders from Tokyo; rather, they often pursued their own expansionist ambitions in South China and Southeast Asia. When outright conquest was not possible, they promoted alternative strategies, including naturalizing resident Chinese as overseas Taiwanese subjects, extending colonial police networks, and deploying tens of thousands of Taiwanese to war. Drawing on multilingual archives in six countries, Imperial Gateway shows how Japanese officials and Taiwanese subjects transformed Taiwan into a regional gateway for expansion in an ever-shifting international order.Seiji Shirane is an Assistant Professor of Japanese History at The City College of New York (CUNY), where his teaching and research interests include Japan&#x27;s empire, Taiwan, and Sino-Japanese relations. He received degrees from Yale University (BA) and Princeton University (PhD), and his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Fulbright, Social Science Research Council, and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

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