{"product_id":"constructing-empire-9780774836524","title":"Constructing Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile other studies focus on the role of diplomats and the military, \u003cem\u003eConstructing Empire\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that building the Japanese empire also required civilian participation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrative in these chapters is grounded in vibrant historic detail, which results in a readable, empirically rich account. -- Sherzod Muminov * Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The quality and the amount of research [Bill Sewell] has done is very impressive, and the book is sophisticated and informative.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Yuxin Ma * American Review of China Studies *\u003cbr\u003e [Sewell] succeeds in demonstrating the complexity of Japanese society in Changchun\/Xinjing. Constructing Empire’s detailed chapters will be indispensable to graduate students and faculty researching or teaching the Japanese Empire and Japanese urban history. -- Alan Thornton * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003eThis book serves as a study of an important dimension of Japanese imperialism and, at the same time, an exploration of an audacious undertaking in twentieth-century urban high modernism... [Sewell] offers an unexpected finding in the degree of continuity in the life of Japanese Changchun that might encourage us to reconsider, at the \"street level\", the sharpness of the great divide of imperial history conveniently marked by the Japanese conquest of 1931. -- Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka, Wellesley College * American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 City Planning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Imperialist and Imperial Façades\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Economic Development\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Colonial Society\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes; Bibliography; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404937830743,"sku":"9780774836524","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780774836524.jpg?v=1730488121","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-empire-9780774836524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}