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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.
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.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 500
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
Publication Date:
01 September 1999
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520219342
Format: Paperback
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Louise Young is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.
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
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