Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo

by Annika A. Culver

Book Overview

In the 1930s and '40s, Japanese rulers in Manchukuo enlisted writers and artists to promote imperial Japan's modernization program. Ironically, the cultural producers chosen to spread the imperialist message were once left-wing politically in Japan, where their work strongly favoured modernist, even avant-garde, styles of expression. In Glorify the Empire, Annika A. Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced avant-garde...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774824360
• ISBN13: 9780774824361
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"