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Constructing East Asia [[electronic resource] ] : technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / / Aaron Stephen Moore



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Autore: Moore Aaron Stephen <1972-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Constructing East Asia [[electronic resource] ] : technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / / Aaron Stephen Moore Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Disciplina: 303.48/3095209043
Soggetto topico: Technology - Political aspects - Japan - History - 20th century
Technology and state - Japan - History - 20th century
Public works - East Asia - History - 20th century
Fascism - Japan - History - 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 - Japan
Soggetto geografico: Japan Colonies Asia History 20th century
Japan History 1926-1945
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Classificazione: ZG 9363
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Constructing East Asia  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-8669-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465699703321
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