Japan's Total Empire

Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
1. Auflage 1999
ISBN: 978-0-520-21934-2
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 500 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 653 g

Reihe: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.

Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobilize popular support for Manchukuo—the mass media, the academy, chambers of commerce, women's organizations, youth groups, and agricultural cooperatives—leading to broad-based support among diverse groups of Japanese. As the empire was being built in China, Young shows, an imagined Manchukuo was emerging at home, constructed of visions of a defensive lifeline, a developing economy, and a settler's paradise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Map and Tables

Acknowledgments

Note on Sources

PART I THE MAKING OF A TOTAL EMPIRE
1. Manchukuo and Japan

2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo

PART II THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE NEW MILITARY
IMPERIALISM, 1931-1933
3· War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media

4· Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization

PART III THE MANCHURIAN EXPERIMENT IN COLONIAL
DEVELOPMENT, 1932-1941
5· Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy

6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia

PART IV THE NEW SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND THE FARM
COLONIZATION PROGRAM, 1932-1945
7· Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire
8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth

9· Victims of Empire

PART V CONCLUSION
10. The Paradox of Total Empire

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Louise Young is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.