ISBN:
9781003279990
,
1003279996
,
9781000845280
,
1000845281
,
9781000845297
,
100084529X
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
DDC:
305.4209509/04
Keywords:
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
Women Social conditions 20th century
;
HISTORY / Asia / Japan
;
HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
;
Japan Colonies 20th century
;
History
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
"Contributors to this book provide an Asian women's history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and the perceptions of the empire by the colonised, the authors present an eclectic history, unified by the perspective of gender studies and the spatial and political lens of the Japanese Empire. They look at the lives of women in Manchuria, Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Okinawa among others. These women were wives, mothers, writers, migrants, intellectuals and activists, and thus had a very broad range of views and experiences of Imperial Japan. Where women have tended in the past to be studies as objects of the imperial system, the contributors to this book study them as the subject of history, while also providing an outside-in perspective on the Japanese Empire by other Asians. A vital new perspective for scholars of Twentieth century history of East Asian countries and regions such as Japan, Korea, Okinawa, Taiwan, China"--...
DOI:
10.4324/9781003279990
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003279990
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