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

by Young, Louise

• ISBN13: 9780520210714
• ISBN10: 0520210719
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Map and Tables	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi	(2)
Note on Sources	xiii
PART I THE MAKING OF A TOTAL EMPIRE	3	(52)
1. Manchukuo and Japan	3	(18)
2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo	21	(34)
PART II THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE NEW MILITARY IMPERIALISM, 1931-1933	55	(128)
3. War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media	55	(60)
4. Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization	115	(68)
PART III THE MANCHURIAN EXPERIMENT IN COLONIAL DEVELOPMENT, 1932-1941	183	(124)
5. Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy	183	(58)
6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia	241	(66)
PART IV THE NEW SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND THE FARM COLONIZATION PROGRAM, 1932-1945	307	(108)
7. Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire	307	(45)
8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth	352	(47)
9. Victims of Empire	399	(16)
PART V CONCLUSION	415	(22)
10. The Paradox of Total Empire	415	(22)
Bibliography	437	(20)
Index	457