Research Catalog

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