Title Constructing East Asia : technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / Aaron Stephen Moore.

Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]
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Summary	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.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-301) and index.
Contents	Introduction : the technological imaginary of Imperial Japan -- Revolutionary technologies of life -- Technologies of Asian development -- Constructing the continent -- Damming the empire -- Designing the social mechanism -- Epilogue : legacies of techno-fascism and techno-imperialism.
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Subject	Technology -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
	Technology -- Political aspects.
	Japan.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Technology and state -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
	Technology and state.
	Japan -- Colonies -- Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Colonies.
	Asia.
	Public works -- East Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Public works.
	East Asia.
	Fascism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
	Fascism.
	Japan -- History -- 1926-1945.
Chronological Term	1926-1945
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Moore, Aaron Stephen, 1972- Constructing East Asia. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013] 0804785392 (DLC) 2012050736 (OCoLC)818953188
ISBN	9780804786690 (electronic book)
	0804786690 (electronic book)
	9780804785396 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0804785392 (cloth ; alkaline paper)

Title Constructing East Asia : technology, ideology, and empire in Japan's wartime era, 1931-1945 / Aaron Stephen Moore.

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