Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism / Edition 1

by Louise Young

Overview

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.

Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobilize popular support for Manchukuo—the mass media, the academy, chambers of commerce, women's organizations, youth groups, and agricultural cooperatives—leading to broad-based support among diverse groups of Japanese. As the empire was being built in China, Young shows, an imagined Manchukuo was emerging at home, constructed of visions of a defensive lifeline, a developing economy, and a settler's paradise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520219342
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	09/01/1999
Series:	Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power , #8
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	500
Sales rank:	1,061,108
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Louise Young is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.

Table of Contents

List of Map and Tables 
Acknowledgments 
Note on Sources 
PART I THE MAKING OF A TOTAL EMPIRE
1. Manchukuo and Japan 
2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo 
PART II THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE NEW MILITARY
IMPERIALISM, 1931-1933
3· War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media 
4· Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization 
PART III THE MANCHURIAN EXPERIMENT IN COLONIAL
DEVELOPMENT, 1932-1941
5· Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy 
6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia 
PART IV THE NEW SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND THE FARM
COLONIZATION PROGRAM, 1932-1945
7· Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire
8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth 
9· Victims of Empire 
PART V CONCLUSION
10. The Paradox of Total Empire 
Bibliography 
Index