Negotiating imperialism : Murakami Naojir's archival diplomacy /
Tremml, Birgit
Negotiating imperialism : Murakami Naojir's archival diplomacy / Birgit Tremml-Werner. - 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2025).
Open Access.
In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Focussing on historian-diplomat Murakami Naojirō, she highlights the impact of the archive and translation in knowledge creation. Combining empirical examples including early modern diplomatic missions to Europe, indigenous Taiwanese history, colonial education and post-war cultural diplomacy, this work emphasizes how the past is represented in the intertwined environments of history and memory. She argues that the Japanese case also reveals wider questions around the myth-making of nation states, and the extent to which 'historiographical violence' has silenced the voices of actors, including Indigenous peoples and women, within the archival record. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
9781009640817 (ebook)
Murakami, Naojir, 1868-1966
Historiography--Japan
Japan--Foreign relations--Historiography.--1868-1912
Japan--Foreign relations--Historiography.--1912-1945
Japan--Territorial expansion--History.
DS882.6 / .T74 2025
951.035
Negotiating imperialism : Murakami Naojir's archival diplomacy / Birgit Tremml-Werner. - 1 online resource (xii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Nov 2025).
Open Access.
In this study of Japan's imperial historiography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Birgit Tremml-Werner examines the use of history to promote expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. Focussing on historian-diplomat Murakami Naojirō, she highlights the impact of the archive and translation in knowledge creation. Combining empirical examples including early modern diplomatic missions to Europe, indigenous Taiwanese history, colonial education and post-war cultural diplomacy, this work emphasizes how the past is represented in the intertwined environments of history and memory. She argues that the Japanese case also reveals wider questions around the myth-making of nation states, and the extent to which 'historiographical violence' has silenced the voices of actors, including Indigenous peoples and women, within the archival record. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
9781009640817 (ebook)
Murakami, Naojir, 1868-1966
Historiography--Japan
Japan--Foreign relations--Historiography.--1868-1912
Japan--Foreign relations--Historiography.--1912-1945
Japan--Territorial expansion--History.
DS882.6 / .T74 2025
951.035