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Esselstrom, Erik,

Crossing empire's edge : Foreign Ministry police and Japanese expansionism in Northeast Asia / Erik Esselstrom. - 1 online resource (xii, 233 pages) : illustrations, maps - - The world of East Asia . - World of East Asia. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index.

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.

Open Access

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.


English.

ISBN: 9781441619846 1441619844 9780824862053 0824862058 0824868935 9780824868932

Source: 22573/ctt62v3qk JSTOR

LCCN: 2008010427

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA8B7199 bnb GBA8B7199. bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Intelligence service--Japan.
Consular police--Japan.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Political Freedom & Security--Law Enforcement.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Intelligence & Espionage.
Consular police.
Intelligence service.
Diplomatic relations.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Japan--Foreign relations--Korea.
Korea--Foreign relations--Japan.
Japan--Foreign relations--China.
China--Foreign relations--Japan.
China.
Japan.
Korea.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JQ1629.I6 / E87 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 363.28