Paul D Barclay

Kondo the Barbarian

A Japanese Adventurer and Indigenous Taiwan's Bloodiest Uprising

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Produktbeschreibung

Kondo the Barbarian is a gripping and revealing account of the colonial Japanese era in Taiwan, focusing on the Musha Rebellion and its brutal suppression by the Japanese military.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Eastbridge Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781788692830
• ISBN-10: 1788692837
• Artikelnr.: 68214586

Autorenporträt

Paul D. Barclay is Professor of History at Lafayette College, where he teaches East Asian, world, and local history, in addition to historical methods. He is the general editor of the East Asia Image Collection and author of Outcasts of Empire: Japanese Rule on Taiwan's "Savage Border" 1874-1945 (University of California Press, 2018). Barclay's research has received support from the National Endowment from the Humanities, the Social Science Research Council, the Japanese Council for the Promotion of Science, and the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He earned a Ph.D. in History at the University of Minnesota.Barclay is a native of Zion, Illinois. Before matriculating at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his B.S. in Secondary Education, he was the night manager of a Mexican-food restaurant, a diesel-truck fuel attendant, apprentice bricklayer, and electric guitarist. On hiatus from university, Barclay tutored the Kuwaiti ambassador to Morocco's children, and backpacked across Europe. After obtaining his teacher's license, he worked as an English instructor in Chiba, Japan. In graduate school, his research on Japanese imperialism brought him to libraries, archives, classrooms, and informal gathering places throughout Taiwan and Japan. He lives with his wife Naoko Ikegami in their adopted hometown of Easton, Pennsylvania, at the fork of the Delaware and Lehigh rivers.