32340586X

Constructing East Asia [Elektronische Ressource] : Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945

Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2013

329 p.

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978-0-8047-8539-6

NQ 2730 NQ 2770 NQ 5755 NW 2649 ZG 9363

 

f Online-Publikation  Japan  Krieg  Technologie  Kolonialismus  Geschichte 1931-1945 

 

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978-0-8047-8669-0

 

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...