TY - BOOK AU - SHIRANE Seiji TI - Imperial gateway: colonial Taiwan and Japan's expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 SN - 9781501767708 (pbk) U1 - 327.034 SHI PY - 2022/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - WORLD POLITIC KW - 1900-1945 KW - JAPAN KW - COLONIES KW - TERRITORIAL EXPANSION N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Drawing on multilingual archives from six countries, this book examines the strategic importance of Taiwan to the Japanese Empire and uncovers the half-century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and Western regional powers in an ever-shifting international order ER -