Japan's total empire : Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism / Louise Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Louise, 1960-

Series:

Twentieth-century Japan ; 8.

Twentieth-century Japan ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mukden Incident, China, 1931.

World politics--1933-1945.

World politics.

Manchuria (China)--History--1931-1945.

Manchuria (China).

Japan--History--1926-1945.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (509 p.)

Other Title:

Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo. Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobilize popular support for Manchukuo-the mass media, the academy, chambers of commerce, women's organizations, youth groups, and agricultural cooperatives-leading to broad-based support among diverse groups of Japanese. As the empire was being built in China, Young shows, an imagined Manchukuo was emerging at home, constructed of visions of a defensive lifeline, a developing economy, and a settler's paradise.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Map and Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Sources

1. Manchukuo and Japan

2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo

3. War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media

4. Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization

5. Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy

6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia

7. Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire

8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth

9. Victims of Empire

10. The Paradox of Total Empire

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-456) and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

9786613382177

9780585329826

0585329826

9780520923157

0520923154

9781283382175

1283382172

OCLC:

45843352