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

• Autore: Moore Aaron Stephen <1972->
• 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
• ISBN: 0-8047-8669-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465699703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II