Japan's total empire : Manchuria and the culture of wartime imperialism / / Louise Young

• Record Nr.: UNISA996247917203316
• Autore: Young Louise <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1998
• ISBN: 0-585-32982-6; 9786613382177; 0-520-92315-4; 1-283-38217-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 p.)
• Collana: Twentieth-century Japan ; ; 8
• Disciplina: 325/.352/09518
• Soggetti: Mukden Incident, China, 1931; World politics - 1933-1945; Manchuria (China) History 1931-1945; Japan History 1926-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-456) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- List of Map and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Sources -- 1. Manchukuo and Japan -- 2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo -- 3. War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media -- 4. Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization -- 5. Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy -- 6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia -- 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 -- 10. The Paradox of Total Empire -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.