New Books on Japan: "Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945"

December 14, 2022 | 7:00PM-8:30 PM EST | REGISTER FOR ZOOM

Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022)

Author: Seiji Shirane, Assistant Professor of History, City College of New York

Discussant: Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University

The Modern Japan History Association invites the wider community to a conversation with Seiji Shirane (Assistant Professor of Japanese History at City College of New York). Professor Shirane will be speaking about his new book, Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (Cornell University Press, 2022). In Imperial Gateway, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of World War II. Drawing on multilingual archives from 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. Andrew Gordon (Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University) will serve as discussant.