LEADER 03915nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910792021503321 005 20230803023702.0 010 $a0-8047-8669-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804786690 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102007 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000885885 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11509452 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000885885 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10815774 035 $a(PQKB)11705304 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000155777 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1207308 035 $a(DE-B1597)564234 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804786690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1207308 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10716105 035 $a(OCoLC)849718814 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769574 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102007 100 $a20121220d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aConstructing East Asia$b[electronic resource] $etechnology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 /$fAaron Stephen Moore 210 $aStanford, Calif. $cStanford University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) $cillustrations (black and white) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8047-9724-2 311 $a0-8047-8539-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tConstructing East Asia -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction. The Technological Imaginary of Imperial Japan -- $tChapter 1. Revolutionary Technologies of Life -- $tChapter 2. Technologies of Asian Development -- $tChapter 3. Constructing the Continent -- $tChapter 4. Damming the Empire -- $tChapter 5. Designing the Social Mechanism -- $tEpilogue. Legacies of Techno- Fascism and Techno- Imperialism in Postwar Japan -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aTechnology$xPolitical aspects$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aTechnology and state$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPublic works$zEast Asia$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aFascism$zJapan$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$zJapan 607 $aJapan$xColonies$zAsia$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aJapan$xHistory$y1926-1945 615 0$aTechnology$xPolitical aspects$xHistory 615 0$aTechnology and state$xHistory 615 0$aPublic works$xHistory 615 0$aFascism$xHistory 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a303.48/3095209043 686 $aZG 9363$2rvk 700 $aMoore$b Aaron Stephen$f1972-$01533808 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792021503321 996 $aConstructing East Asia$93780936 997 $aUNINA