1st Edition
Japan’s Pan-Asian Empire Wartime Intellectuals and the Korea Question, 1931–1945
By Seok-Won Lee
Copyright 2021
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
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.
