and customs and tariffs in China, 160–164

and development in Manchuria, 72, 75, 80

and efforts at U.S. amicability with Japan, 138

in Hawaiian newspapers, 255

nationalism in, 184

and Open Door policy, 22, 24

and politics of escalation, 231–235

and Reinsch’s management of China, 98–99, 105–108

and Shantung, 109–113

and Siberian intervention, 118

and Soga’s opinion of Far East relations, 248

and Solvency in China, 159

Perry, M.C. (Commodore), xl

Pescadores, 186

Phelan, James D., 145

Philadelphia (Quaker) Yearly Meeting, 135

Philippine-American War, xvii

Philippine annexation, 3, 4

Philippines, xvi, 27, 50–51, 74, 86, 139, 262, 281

annexation, xl, xlvi, 3

American seizure of, 7

guerilla fighters in, 263

Japanese ambitions in, 3

Philippine-American war, xvii

recommended governance of, 199–200

and U.S. imperialism, xxv, xliii–xlvii, 4

Pichon, Stéphen (French Minister of Foreign Affairs), 24

picture brides, 61, 65, 132

ping pong, 281

police, 217, 245

author’s memoirs of Japanese, 275, 278–280, 286, 288, 297

Chinese, 168, 179

in Hawaii, 243

in San Francisco, 48

in Tokyo, xxxii, 194, 213, 218, 248

in Yokohama, 249

Polish, 66

Port Arthur, Texas, 16

Porter, Gareth, xi

Porter, Horace (General), 20–21

ports, xlvi, 51, 159

Portsmouth Conference, 72

Portsmouth Treaty, 17, 25, 31, 33

postcolonialism, xi, 263

postmodernism, x, xv, xxiii

poststructuralism, xi, xxix

power

in author’s memories of Japan, 271, 274, 299

and Bolshevism in China, 173, 176

and Conroy’s diplomatic history, xxii–xxiii, xliii, xlvi

consolidation of in China, 101

and contested geographies, xiv

and development in Manchuria, 82, 84–85

and efforts at U.S. amicability with Japan, 128, 141

during Hawaiian annexation, 3, 7

in Hawaiian newspapers, 255

and immigration issues, 46–47, 98

during insurrection, 220

during Japanese invasion of China, 102–103

and nationalism in China, 186