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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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2013]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804786690 0804786690 |