Japan's Imperial Underworlds

Explores Sino-Japanese relations through encounters that took place between each country's people living at the margins of empire.

Introduction: border agents; 1. Treaty ports and traffickers: children's bodies, regional markets, and the making of national space; 2. In the Antlion's pit: abduction narratives and marriage migration between Japan and Fuqing; 3. Embodying the borderland in the Taiwan Strait: Nakamura Sueko as runaway woman and pirate Queen; 4. Borders in blood, water, and ink: And Sakan's intimate mappings of the South China Sea; 5. Epilogue: ruptures, returns, and re-openings.