Significant soil : settler colonialism and Japan's urban empire in Manchuria / Emer O'Dwyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Dwyer, Emer Sinéad.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 377.

Harvard East Asian monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan. Rikugun.

Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha.

Relations.

History.

Colonies.

Japanese.

Dalian (Liaoning Sheng, China)--History--20th century.

Dalian (Liaoning Sheng, China).

Kwantung Leased Territory--History--20th century.

Kwantung Leased Territory.

Colonists--Political activity--China--Manchuria--History--20th century.

Colonists.

Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha--History--20th century.

Japanese--China--Manchuria--History--20th century.

Japan--Colonies--History--20th century.

Japan.

Imperialism--History--20th century.

Imperialism.

Japan. Rikugun--History--20th century.

Manchuria (China)--Relations--Japan.

Manchuria (China).

Japan--Relations--China--Manchuria.

China--Manchuria.

Physical Description:

xv, 511 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

Distributed by Harvard University Press.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.

Summary:

"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria--and especially its principal city, Dairen--was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, the book demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers' determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire"--Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables

Note to the Reader

Part I. Place

Dairen, A City Like No Other

Part II. A Place within the Empire

Sovereignty, Self-Governance, and Colonial Gentlemen, 1905-15

Expanding Imperial Privilege, 1913-16

A Leasehold Based on Law, 1917-24

Part III. The Kingdom of Mantetsu

Self-Governance, Old and New, 1925-27

Settler Politics as a Mass Movement, 1928

Saving Manchuria, 1929-1931

Part IV. The Boundaries of Significant Soil

The Manchurian Incident, 1931-33

"Dairen Ideology" versus "Shinkyo Ideology," 1933-37

Conclusion: Dairen and Shanghai

Appendix A: Mantetsu Officers and Personnel Ranks

Appendix B: Supplementary Tables

Glossary-Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 474-494) and index.

ISBN:

9780674504332

067450433X

OCLC:

893709445