Rethinking colonial legacies across Southeast Asia : through the lens of the Japanese wartime empire / Diana S. Kim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kim, Diana S., 1982- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Politics and society in Southeast Asia, 2515-2998.

Cambridge elements. Elements in politics and society in Southeast Asia, 2515-2998

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Southeast Asia.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Occupied territories.

Southeast Asia--Politics and government.

Southeast Asia.

Japan--Foreign relations--Southeast Asia.

Japan.

Southeast Asia--Foreign relations--Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This Element explores the significance of the Japanese wartime empire's occupation of Southeast Asia during World War Two for understanding the region's colonial legacies. It conceptualizes the occupation as a critical juncture that mediated the survival of American and European colonial institutions, and comparatively describes how, between 1940 and 1945, a wide variety of formal institutions for governing territories and people operated under the Japanese, who selectively kept or changed the existing arrangements of their Western predecessors, while sometimes introducing new ones altogether. The Japanese occupation, as such, generated different processes for transmitting pre-1940 colonial institutions into postwar and independent Southeast Asia. Building on new histories of the occupation, this Element offers an analytical framework that helps social scientists specify the mechanisms through which the long-run consequences of colonial institutions obtain in the context of Southeast Asia, while grappling more generally with what constitutes a meaningful rupture to historical continuity.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia: Through the Lens of the Japanese Wartime Empire

Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia

1.2 Why the Japanese Occupation?

1.3 Argument and Approach

2 Two Overviews of the Japanese Wartime Empire across Southeast Asia, 1940-1945

2.1 A Bird's Eye View

2.2 A Worm's Eye View

3 Varieties of Wartime Institutions

3.1 What They Kept: Direct Transmission

3.2 What They Changed: Indirect Transmission

3.3 What They Created: Non-Transmission

4 Conclusion

References

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-009-08026-1

1-009-08046-6

1-009-07094-0

OCLC:

1574118687