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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