Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945

by Aaron Moore and Aaron Stephen Moore

Book Overview

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 mobilization--what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804785392
• ISBN13: 9780804785396
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"