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Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism (Volume 8) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) First Edition

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In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" of empire building: how people at home imagined and experienced the empire they called Manchukuo.

Contrary to the conventional assumption that a few army officers and bureaucrats were responsible for Japan's overseas expansion, Young finds that a variety of organizations helped to mobilize popular support for Manchukuo―the mass media, the academy, chambers of commerce, women's organizations, youth groups, and agricultural cooperatives―leading to broad-based support among diverse groups of Japanese. As the empire was being built in China, Young shows, an imagined Manchukuo was emerging at home, constructed of visions of a defensive lifeline, a developing economy, and a settler's paradise.
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    0520219341
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    978-0520219342
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    First Edition
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    University of California Press
  5. Publication date
    September 1, 1999
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
  8. Print length
    500 pages
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"Young's extraordinary book will force historians of Japan to rethink their treatment of Manchukuo. Young's study also joins the new comparative scholarship on imperialism, which analyzes its transforming power not only on the colony but also on the metropole. She has thus created an essential work of scholarship for students of comparative imperialist history."--Parks M. Coble, "American Historical Review

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"A pathbreaking study that situates Manchukuo where it belongs in the center of Japan's imperial project. In an admirably bold and beautifully textured analysis, Young shows how the military, economic, and social aspects of an imperialism that involved more than a million Japanese in the domination of Northeast China emerged as the fateful outcome of modernity and ended as the ground of a terrible war. Total war, total mobilization, total empire--a gripping account of the lessons of twentieth-century history."--Carol Gluck, author of Japan's Modern Myths

"A work of major importance in the study of Japanese imperialism. Louise Young has opened up areas unexplored by research works in the English language, examining them in rich detail and commenting on them on many levels and in many stimulating ways."--Peter Duus, author of The Abacus and the Sword

"A magisterial work, at once comprehensive and penetrating. At home with both statistics and cultural imagery, Louise Young shows that relations with Manchuria galvanized the entire social body of Japan through its emerging mass culture. She stirs the silent memories of a dangerous place, a place that shaped modern Japan much more intimately than we imagined."--Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation: Questioning Narratives of Modern China

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of California Press; First Edition (September 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 500 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0520219341
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0520219342
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.4 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.2 x 9 inches
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EdM.
5.0 out of 5 stars Manchukuo and Japan
Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2015
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Total Empire explores the relationship between Japan and the short lived state of Manchukuo, from that state's formation in 1932 until it's dissolution along with the Empire in 1945. The author's main focus is on how the imperial project affected the Japanese in the homeland, whether as family members went to the frontier as soldiers or settlers, and how the acquisition of empire fueled national ambitions.

Manchukuo was seen as a necessary territory/ cooperative ally for both it's natural resources and farmland for Japanese needs. It's political import from early on (after 1905) gathered more and more interest until the Imperial Army forced a resolution by carving Manchuria away from an increasing chaotic China.

The author clearly defines the work as a conceptual effect between the Japanese state and society. The often moral ambiguousness that accompanies most discussions on the subject are thankfully absent. The tales of both Japanese settlers and the native populations can be found elsewhere. This makes the book non-biased and informative and should be read by anyone in an interest in the subject of Manchukuo.
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Richard F. May
5.0 out of 5 stars deep, mastery with nuanced writing
Reviewed in the United States on December 23, 2012
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5 full stars. the elegant writing and scholarship is nearly on the level of John Dower's, "Embracing Defeat". Laura Young's, as did John Dowers, books, have had a lasting effect on my understanding of the "Pacific wars," the lead up and the unwinding.
also as a researcher in a think-tank in Tokyo I found the numerous details about the Manchuko Tetsudou Research Group, the think-tank of the Japanese government giving advice on economic growth in the occupied region, to be quite valuable. the only other coverage I know of is in the writings in Japanese by Marxist and mainstream Japanese economists writing for a Japanese academic audience.
R. May, Japan Consumer Marketing Research Institute
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Dr. Werner Brunner
4.0 out of 5 stars a very intersting book with a lot of background information ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2015
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a very intersting book with a lot of background information and a survey about Japans imperialism.
I for myself would have had more information about the gouvernment and ministers of Mandschuckuo and about the foreign relations.
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scott bartel
5.0 out of 5 stars Manchuko
Reviewed in the United States on December 14, 2019
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Manchuko Japans colonial entry into backwards China and its submissive powers.
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JS
3.0 out of 5 stars Uneven but interesting
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2011
This book seems to lack a strong focus. I don't know whether the author wanted to talk political maneuvering, culture, imperialism, patriotism, etc. However, there's some decent stuff to be found within its pages on the specific Japanese experience of Manchukuo and how it was justified in its era and thought about after the war, which makes it a sight better than the other, incomprehensible recent study  Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern .
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KAY
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderful book. Though I doubt to what extent we ...
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2015
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This is a wonderful book. Though I doubt to what extent we could term everything as "total," what happens to causation?
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darkfaire
5.0 out of 5 stars good college book
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2016
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was good for my college asian course
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Garreth
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2015
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Informative and widely encompassing.
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Manuel
5.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro de historia.
Reviewed in Spain on August 25, 2023
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