Transpacific Visions

Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South

Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takahashi

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978775220
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Asian History
• Index: History

This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including "vertical" connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people's attempts at événements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes beyond the usual notion of transpacific history as a matter of Northern Hemisphere-centric connections between the United States and Asian countries, and enables us to imagine a transpacific space as a more dynamic and multi-faceted world of human mobilities and connections. In this book, both eminent and burgeoning historians uncover the stories of little-known, myriad encounters in various parts of the Asia-Pacific region. By exploring cases whose actors include soldiers, missionaries, colonial administrators, journalists, essayists, and artists, the book highlights the significance of "vertical" perspectives in understanding complex histories of the region.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Global Mobilities amid the Pandemic
• Chapter 1: Meaningful Connections: Reflections on Transpacific Consciousness
• Chapter 2: Promise and Protection: New Guinea Villagers and the Role of Christianity during the Pacific War
• Chapter 3: Anthropology and Colonial Administration in Transpacific Perspective: Australian “Government Anthropology” in New Guinea and Japanese “Practical Ethnology” in the South Sea Islands, 1924–1941
• Chapter 4: Australian Military Sexual Adventurism in the New Guinea Campaign, 1942–1945
• Chapter 5: Japan’s Last Colonial Frontier: Settler Migration, Development, and Expansionism in the Brazilian Amazon
• Chapter 6: War Movements of People: War Evacuees and Military Linguists of Japanese Language in Australia during the Pacific War
• Chapter 7: The Hiroshima Panels and Australia
• Chapter 8: The Journey to the Archipelago: Shimao Toshio, Southern Localism, and the Dream of Japanesia
• Chapter 9: Fantastic and Fanciful Gazes at Pacific Island women: Japanese Travel Journalist Kanetaka Kaoru’s Impressions from Her Journey in 1961
• In Place of Conclusion: Weaving the Pacific
• Notes on Name Convention
• Index
• About the Editors and Contributors