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Author Esselstrom, Erik.

Title Crossing empire's edge : Foreign Ministry police and Japanese expansionism in Northeast Asia / Erik Esselstrom.

Publication Info. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, [2009]
©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome.
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Series The world of East Asia
World of East Asia.
Bibliography 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.
Local Note JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access
Language English.
Subject Intelligence service -- Japan.
Intelligence service.
Japan.
Consular police -- Japan.
Consular police.
Japan -- Foreign relations -- Korea.
International relations.
Korea.
Korea -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
Japan -- Foreign relations -- China.
China.
China -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Esselstrom, Erik. Crossing empire's edge. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2009 9780824832315 0824832310 (DLC) 2008010427 (OCoLC)214063567
ISBN 9781441619846 (electronic book)
1441619844 (electronic book)
9780824862053 (electronic book)
0824862058 (electronic book)
0824868935
9780824868932
9780824832315
0824832310