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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 November 2025

Birgit Tremml-Werner
Birgit Tremml-Werner
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Stockholms Universitet

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Negotiating Imperialism
Murakami Naojirō's Archival Diplomacy
 , pp. v - vi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. List of Illustrations

  2. Acknowledgments

  3. List of Abbreviations

  4. Prologue

  5. 1Introduction

    1. A Note on Terminology and Concepts

    2. Why Murakami Naojirō?

    3. Beyond a Scholar’s Biography: Translation and the Archive

    4. Writing between Times: Notes on Temporalities and Analytical Frames

    5. Overview of Murakami’s Publication

    6. Overview of Chapters

  6. 2Translator Historian and Scholar Diplomat: Murakami’s Life of Global Knowledge

    1. Biographical Contingencies and Educational Credentials

    2. Teacher and Educator

    3. Public Intellectual and Diplomat Historian

    4. Imperial Agent?

    5. Translating, Recycling, and Publishing

    6. Concluding Remarks

  7. 3Formal Diplomatic Relations and the Untranslatability of Gaikō

    1. Early Modern Gaikō in Recent Historiography

    2. A Proto-Historiography of Early Modern Gaikō

    3. How Murakami Made Gaikō Monjo Matter

    4. Forging Gaikō Narratives

    5. Translating and Imagining Objects and Materiality

    6. Concluding Remarks

  8. 4Entangled Biographies and the Imperialist Creation of Historical Knowledge

    1. Murakami’s Entangled Biography

    2. Diplomat Scholars

    3. International (Archival) Travel and Its Imperial Protocol

    4. The Making of Seventeenth-Century Diplomats

    5. Archives, Gifts, and Knowledge

    6. Concluding Remarks

  9. 5Nan’yōshi: How to Position Japan in Southeast Asian History

    1. Taiwan between Colonial and Global History

    2. (De)colonizing Taiwanese History

    3. The Great Men of Taiwan’s Trade and Foreign Relations

    4. Before Southern Seas History: Writing about Taiwanese and Formosan (Colonial) Pasts

    5. Translating and Defining ‘South’ and ‘Sea’ in Nan’yō History

    6. Nan’yōshi: Synchronizing Japanese and European Expansionism in the South China Sea

    7. Concluding Remarks

  10. 6From Takasago’s Past to Taiwan’s History: Murakami between Silencing and Exaggerating

    1. The Dynamics of Silencing Indigenous Pasts

    2. Reflections on the Absence of Aboriginal Pasts in Imperial Historiography

    3. Sinkan Manuscripts: Sources of Indigenous or Colonial Pasts?

    4. The Sinkan Archive

    5. Alternative Narrations of Diplomatic Negotiations

    6. The Trope of the Barbarian

    7. Concluding Remarks

  11. Epilogue

  12. References

  13. Index

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