Constructing East Asia :: technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 /

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,...

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1. Verfasser: Moore, Aaron Stephen, 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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Zusammenfassung: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 mobilisation - what the author terms a 'technological imaginary' - to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.
ISBN:9780804786690
0804786690

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