Japan’s Pan-Asian Empire Wartime Intellectuals and the Korea Question, 1931–1945 Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Series
Auteur : Lee Seok-Won
This book is a study of how the theories and actual practices of a Pan-Asian empire were produced during Japan?s war, 1931?1945.
As Japan invaded China and conducted a full-scale war against the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s, several versions of a Pan-Asian empire were presented by Japanese intellectuals, in order to maximize wartime collaboration and mobilization in China and the colonies. A broad group of social scientists ? including R?yama Masamichi, Kada Tetsuji, Ezawa J?ji, Takata Yasuma, and Shinmei Masamichi ? presented highly politicized visions of a new Asia characterized by a newly shared Asian identity. Critically examining how Japanese social scientists contrived the logic of a Japan-led East Asian community, Part I of this book demonstrates the violent nature of imperial knowledge production which buttresses colonial developmentalism. In Part II, the book also explores questions around the (re)making of colonial Korea as part of Japan?s regional empire, generating theoretical and realistic tensions between resistance and collaboration.
Japan?s Pan-Asian Empire provides original theoretical perspectives on the construction of a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural empire. It will appeal to students and scholars of modern Japanese history, colonial and postcolonial studies, as well as Korean studies.
Part I: Theories of a Pan-Asian Empire 1. Toward a New Imperial Order: Pan-Asian Regionalism in Interwar Japan 2. Minzoku and Creating a Multi-Ethnic Empire 3. Constructing Greater East Asian Space: Geopolitics and the Question of Imperial Modernization Part II: The Korea Question 4. Moritani Katsumi and Reconstructing Colonial Korea 5. In Jeong Sik and the Search for a Korean Subjectivity
Seok-Won Lee is an Associate Professor of History at Rhodes College, USA. His areas of research include twentieth-century Japanese intellectual history, colonialism, and imperialism in East Asia.
Date de parution : 08-2022
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 12-2020
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Japanese Social Scientists; community building; East Asian Community; Asia Pacific War; Colonial Korea; postwar Japan; Japanese Intellectuals; Kyoto School; World War II; National Land Planning; pan-Asianism; East Asian Empire; regionalism; Tokyo Imperial University; intellectuals; Japan Proper; colonial developmentalism; Pan-Asian Community; rhetoric; Japan’s War Efforts; asian identity; Korean Intellectuals; subjectivity; Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere; empire; Asiatic Mode; Japan-led East Asian community; Korean Agriculture; Wartime collaboration; Japanese Marxist; Pan-Asian Regionalism; Pan-Asian empire; Marxist Social Scientists; Kyoto Imperial University; East Asian Geography; Korean Social Scientists; Wartime Period; Civil Society; Empire Building Project; Term Minzoku