03949nam 2200709Ia 450 991046569970332120200520144314.00-8047-8669-010.1515/9780804786690(CKB)2560000000102007(SSID)ssj0000885885(PQKBManifestationID)11509452(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885885(PQKBWorkID)10815774(PQKB)11705304(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155777(MiAaPQ)EBC1207308(DE-B1597)564234(DE-B1597)9780804786690(Au-PeEL)EBL1207308(CaPaEBR)ebr10716105(OCoLC)849718814(OCoLC)1178769574(EXLCZ)99256000000010200720121220d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrConstructing East Asia[electronic resource] technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 /Aaron Stephen MooreStanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20131 online resource (xii, 314 pages) illustrations (black and white)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8047-9724-2 0-8047-8539-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Constructing East Asia -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan -- Chapter 1. Revolutionary Technologies of Life -- Chapter 2. Technologies of Asian Development -- Chapter 3. Constructing the Continent -- Chapter 4. Damming the Empire -- Chapter 5. Designing the Social Mechanism -- Epilogue. Legacies of Techno- Fascism and Techno- Imperialism in Postwar Japan -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index 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 mobilization—what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological imaginary"—to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Moore reveals wartime elites as far more calculated in thought and action than previous scholarship allows. Moreover, Moore positions the wartime origins of technology deployment as an essential part of the country's national policy and identity, upending another predominant narrative—namely, that technology did not play a modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle" of the postwar years.TechnologyPolitical aspectsJapanHistory20th centuryTechnology and stateJapanHistory20th centuryPublic worksEast AsiaHistory20th centuryFascismJapanHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945JapanJapanColoniesAsiaHistory20th centuryJapanHistory1926-1945Electronic books.TechnologyPolitical aspectsHistoryTechnology and stateHistoryPublic worksHistoryFascismHistoryWorld War, 1939-1945303.48/3095209043ZG 9363rvkMoore Aaron Stephen1972-1027384MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910465699703321Constructing East Asia2442788UNINA