Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.
Contents
Patterns of police work in late Chosŏn Korea -- A disputed presence in late Qing and early Republican China -- Policing resistance to the imperial state -- Opposition, escalation, and integration -- The struggle for security in occupied China.
Summary
For more than half a century, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) possessed an independent police force that operated within the space of Japan's informal empire on the Asian continent. This text reveals its complex history.