Title: Constructing East Asia
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.
Subjects: Public works, World War, 1939-1945, Fascism, Colonies, Technology, Technology and state, History, Technology, history, japan, Public works, asia, Japan, history, World war, 1939-1945, japan, Political aspects