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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.

Table of 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.

Author/Creator:

Esselstrom, Erik

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

English.

Main Work:

Crossing empire's edge: Foreign Ministry police and Japanese expansionism in Northeast Asia [by Esselstrom, E.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Crossing empire's edge (Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, c2009 — ISBN 9780824832315 (hardcover : alk. paper); LCCN 2008010427)

Related Series:

World of East Asia

Subjects:

Consular police — Japan

Intelligence service — Japan

China — Foreign relations — Japan

Japan — Foreign relations — China

Japan — Foreign relations — Korea

Korea — Foreign relations — Japan

Consular police

Diplomatic relations

Intelligence service

China

Japan

Korea

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (xii, 233 pages).

Physical Characteristics:

polychrome

Digital Characteristics:

data file

Call Numbers:

JQ1629.I6 E874 2009eb

ISBNs:

0824832310 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780824832315 (hardcover, alk. paper) [Invalid]
9780824862053
9781441619846 (electronic bk.)
0824862058
1441619844 (electronic bk.)
0824868935
9780824868932

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021758818

OCLC Numbers:

1348204555