In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the intriguing case of Manchukuo--the Japanese puppet state in northeast China from 1932-1945--to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. He argues that Manchukuo, ...
Set in Japanese occupied Manchuria in the 1930s, The Girl Who Played Go is harsher, more shocking than Balzac, a timeless tale of love and war reflected in the age-old game of go. In the Place of a Thousand Winds, snow falls as a sixteen-year-old Chinese girl beats all-comers at the game of go. One of her opponents is a young Japanese officer of ...
Kazuko Kuramoto was born in Dairen, Manchuria, in 1927, at the peak of Japanese expansionism in Asia. Dairen and neighboring Port Arthur were important colonial outposts on the Liaotung Peninsula; the train lines established by Russia and taken over by the Japanese ended there. When Kuramoto's grandfather arrived in Dairen as a member of the ...
This 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.
This book explores the history of Japanese imperialism in Manchuria from the acquisition of a railway concession following the Russ-Japanese War of 1904-5 to the founding of the puppet state of Manchoukuo in 1932. The author argues that Japan's subjugation of this territory, although culminating in armed seizure in 1931, was, for the most part, an ...
Shamans and Elders is a major study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. It presents a wealth of new information, and offers a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. This unique and detailed analysis of a fascinating subject combines a discussion of Urgunge Onon's memories of shamanism with Caroline ...
"Resisting Manchukuo" reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation. In Manchukuo, a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese women writers could articulate ...
MANCHURIA CRADLE OF CONFLICT BY OWEN LATTIMORE NEW YORE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1931 COPYRIGHT, 1932, BY THE MACMELLAN COMPANY. All rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for ...
JAPANS DREAJM OF WORLD EMPIR THE TANAKA MEMORIA a., . o. V, V n Edited, with an Introduction by CARL CROW PUBLISHERS HARPER BROTHERS YORK LONDO JAPANS DREAM OF WORLD EMPIRE THE TANAKA MEMORIAL Copyright, 1942, by Carl Crow Printed in the United States of America All rights in this book are reserved. No part of the book may be reproduced in any ...
In 1882, Francis Younghusband was commissioned into the First King's Dragoon Guards who were then stationed in India. Younghusband soon launched into his career of exploration with two brief sorties into the Himalayas. The Heart of a Continent, first published in 1896, tells of Younghusband's journey through Manchuria and along the Silk Road into ...
A never-before-published account of the experience of an American officer at the hands of Japanese captors, "Prisoner of the Rising Sun" offers new evidence of the treatment accorded officers and shows how the Corregidor prisoners fared compared with the ill-fated Bataan captives. When Japanese aircraft struck airfields in the Philippines on ...
Crossed Histories represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to "Manchuria" under Japan's influence from the turn of the twentieth century to 1945. The contributors, who represent the fields of history, literature, film studies, sociology, and anthropology, unpack the complexity of Manchuria as an effect of the geopolitical ...
This book explores the nexus between railways and the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) - the first modern war and one in which the railways played a key part. Felix Patrikeeff and Harry Shukman examine some of the key dimensions of the Russo-Japanese War, most notably how uncomfortably technological and human dimensions of Russia's war effort ...
An attempt to render Chinese archaeology more accessible to Western readers through a detailed case study of approximately 16,000 years of cultural development in northeastern China. The author addresses prehistoric sociopolitical processes in the Dongbei region through an analysis of both his and other researchers' field data and demonstrates the ...
A complete, eyewitness account of the fighting on Bataan based on what is believed to be the only American diary from the defense of the Philippines to have survived the war intact.
A powerful element in Chinese politics has been the myth of Chinese resistance to Japan's seizure of Manchuria in 1931. This text examines the shifting alliance of key players, traces the narrative of resistance to the occupation and shows how it became part of China's political conciousness.
This study seeks to lay bare the relationship between the sociopolitical structures that shaped peasant lives in Manchuria (northeast China) during the Qing dynasty and the development of that region's economy. The book is written in three parts. It begins with an analysis of the ideological, political, and economic interests of the Qing ruling ...
Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in north-east China with the dream of becoming land-owning farmers. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan's surrender in August 1945, their dream turned into a nightmare. Since the late 1980s, popular Japanese conceptions have overlooked the disastrous impact ...
The 1909 account of Soseki's travels through Manchuria on the then recently-acquired South Manchurian Railway (SMR) in English. The introduction offers an in-depth reassessment of Soseki the man and writer as well as an insightful commentary on the SMR journey itself and the place of the travelogue in Soseki's writings. The volume includes a plate ...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
