Description
Book SynopsisThis examination of Japanese imperialism focuses on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, to consider the "metropolitan effects" of empire building - how the Japanese people imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.
Table of ContentsList of Map and Tables
Acknowledgments
Note on Sources
PART I THE MAKING OF A TOTAL EMPIRE
1. Manchukuo and Japan
2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo
PART II THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE NEW MILITARY
IMPERIALISM, 1931-1933
3· War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media
4· Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization
PART III THE MANCHURIAN EXPERIMENT IN COLONIAL
DEVELOPMENT, 1932-1941
5· Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy
6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia
PART IV THE NEW SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND THE FARM
COLONIZATION PROGRAM, 1932-1945
7· Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire
8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth
9· Victims of Empire
PART V CONCLUSION
10. The Paradox of Total Empire
Bibliography
Index
