Research Catalog

Title

• Significant soil : settler colonialism and Japan's urban empire in Manchuria / Emer O'Dwyer.

Author

O'Dwyer, Emer Sinéad.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2015.
• Distributed by Harvard University Press

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Description

xv, 511 pages : illustratons, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria--and especially its principal city, Dairen--was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, the book demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers' determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire"--Provided by the publisher.

Series Statement

• Harvard East Asian monographs ; 377

Uniform Title

Harvard East Asian monographs 377.

Subject

• Colonists > History > Manchuria > 20th century
• Dalian (Liaoning Sheng, China) > History > 20th century
• Imperialism > History > 20th century
• Japan > History > 20th century
• Japan > Relations > Manchuria
• Japan. Rikugun > History > 20th century
• Japanese > Manchuria > History > 20th century
• Kwantung Leased Territory > History > 20th century
• Manchuria (China) > Relations > Japan
• Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha > History > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Note to the Reader -- Part I. Place -- Dairen, A City Like No Other -- Part II. A Place within the Empire -- Sovereignty and Self-Governance -- Expanding Imperial Privilege -- A Leasehold Based on Law -- Part III. The Kingdom of Mantetsu -- Self-Governance, Old and New -- Settler Politics as a Mass Movement -- Saving Manchuria -- Part IV. The Boundaries of Significant Soil -- The Manchurian Incident -- Dairen versus Shinkyo Ideology -- Conclusion: Dairen and Shanghai -- Appendix A: Mantetsu Presidents and Vice Presidents, and Personnel Ranks -- Appendix B: Supplementary Tables -- Glossary-Index.

ISBN

• 9780674504332 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
• 067450433X (hardcover : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2014033427

OCLC

893709445

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library