Transwar Asia : ideology, practices, and institutions, 1920-1960 / [edited by] Reto Hofmann and Max Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ward, Max, editor.

Hofmann, Reto, editor.

Series:

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decolonization--East Asia--History.

Decolonization.

East Asia--Politics and government--20th century.

East Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021

Summary:

"This volume considers the possibilities of the term 'transwar' to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to the 1960s. Recently, scholars have challenged earlier studies that suggested a neat division between the pre- and postwar or colonial/postcolonial periods in the national histories of East Asia, instead assessing change and continuity across the divide of war. Taking this reconsideration further, Transwar Asia explores the complex processes by which prewar and colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions from the 1920s and 1930s were reconfigured during World War II and, crucially, in the two decades that followed, thus shaping the Asian Cold War and the processes of decolonization and nation state-formation. With contributions covering the transwar histories of China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan, the book addresses key themes such as authoritarianism, militarization, criminal rehabilitation, market controls, labor-regimes, and anti-communism. A transwar angle, the authors argue, sheds new light on the continuing problems that undergirded the formation of postwar nation-states and illuminates the political legacies that still shape the various regions in Asia up to the present."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction - Reto Hofmann (University of Western Australia, Australia) and Max Ward (Middlebury College, USA)

2. Volksgeist- ism: Ideational Flows between Europe, Japan and Indonesia, 1920s-1960s - David Bourchier ( University of Western Australia, Australia)

3. Back to the Time of Japanese Rule? The Cold War and the Legacies of the Wartime Colonial Regime in South Korea, 1945-1950 - Deokhyo Choi (University of Sheffield, UK)

4. Colonial Militarism in the Transwar Japanese Empire - Victor Louzon ( Sorbonne University, France)

5. Imperial Shift: Rice Control and Everyday Life in Transwar Korea, 1937-1950 - Yumi Moon (Stanford University, USA)

6. Redefining China's Anticommunist Revolution: 'People's Livelihood' in 1950s Taiwan - Brian Tsui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)

7. The 'Emperor-System Within' and Criminal Rehabilitation in Japan, 1920-1960 - Max Ward (Middlebury College, USA)

8. Occupational Hazards: Military Contract Labor in the Colonial & Postcolonial Philippines - Colleen Woods (University of Maryland, USA)

9. Afterword - Takashi Fujitani (University of Toronto, Canada)

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781350182844

1350182842

9781350182837

1350182834

9781350182820

1350182826

OCLC:

1264724176