Constructing East Asia
Subtitle: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: Jun 19, 2013
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780804785396
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945