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Constructing East Asia : technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / Aaron Stephen Moore.
- Title
- Constructing East Asia : technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / Aaron Stephen Moore.
- Author
- Moore, Aaron Stephen, 1972-
- Publication
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013.
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- Description
- xii, 314 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut and dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931-1945. Challenging the status quo, 'Constructing East Asia' examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilisation - what the author terms a 'technological imaginary' - to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- Honʼyaku iin shachū Japan
- 1900-1999
- 1900-talet
- Technology > Japan > History > 20th century
- Technology and state > Japan > History > 20th century
- Public works > East Asia > History > 20th century
- Fascism > Japan > History > 20th century
- World War, 1939-1945 > Japan
- Technology > History > Japan > 20th century
- Japan > History > Asia > 20th century
- Japan > History > 1926-1945
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the technological imaginary of Imperial Japan -- Revolutionary technologies of life -- Technologies of Asian development -- Constructing the continent -- Damming the empire -- Designing the social mechanism -- Epilogue : legacies of techno-fascism and techno-imperialism.
- ISBN
- 9780804785396 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780804797245 (pbk : alk. paper)
- 0804785392 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2012050736
- OCLC
- 818953188
- SCSB-13790037
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library