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Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire book cover

1st Edition

Women in Asia under the Japanese Empire

Edited By Tatsuya Kageki, Jiajia Yang Copyright 2023
236 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

236 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Contributors to this book provide an Asian women’s history from the perspective of gender analysis, assessing Japanese imperial policy and propaganda in its colonies and occupied territories and particularly its impact on women. Tackling topics including media, travel, migration, literature, and the perceptions of the empire by the colonized, the authors present an eclectic history, unified... Read more

Introduction

Kageki Tatsuya and Yang Jiajia

Part 1. The Ideal of Women Delivered by the Empire

1. The Japanese Women’s Journals in Colonial Taiwan: The Patriotic Taiwan’s Women and Taiwanese Women’s World

Wu Peichen

2. Expressing independence in the midst of collaboration: Female roles in the women’s magazine Qi Lin of Manchukuo

Wang Wenwen

3. "Wise Wives and Good Mothers": Disobedience in Disguise under the Collaborationist Regime in Guangzhou (1940–1945)

Cheung Yin-ki Bianca

Part 2. Women Traveling in and Writing on Asia

4. The West, Asia, and Women in Rha Hye-seok’s Travels

Son Ji-youn, translated by KAGEKI Tatsuya

5. A Japanese women’s exploration of semi-colonized China: The case of Hayashi Fumiko 's Traveling writing around 1930

Yang Jiajia

6. Women’s "language/translation" community in Japan/Korea: Hayashi Fumiko as Japanese imperial novelist

Ko Young-ran, translated by Jodie Beck

Part 3. Seeking "Imperial Women" in Colonial Asia

7. Japanese Women in Colonial Taiwan in the 1930s: Their Identity Formation Under the Influence of Japanese Imperialism by analyzing Taiwan Fujinkai

Wang Shih-Fen

8. An Anarchist Woman’s ideological conversion: How Mochizuki Yuriko Became a Nationalist in Manchuria

Kageki Tatsuya

9. Statements of "Nanshin Josei" in the 1940s: The Discrepancy between the Representation of "Nanshin Josei" and Their Narratives

Zhang Ya

Part 4. The Periphery of Empire

10. Population Movements of Migrant Okinawan Women during the Development of the Empire: Women’s migration from Okinawa to the South Sea Islands

Kawashima Jun

11. Population Movements of Migrant Okinawan Women during the Collapse of the Empire: Wartime Repatriation and Okinawan Women in the South Sea Islands

Kawashima Jun

Biography

Tatsuya Kageki is a research associate in the faculty of economics of Keio University. His research focused on developing the history of social thought in modern Japan and East Asia.

Jiajia Yang is an assistant professor in the Research Center for Japanese Language Education and Department of Japanese Language & Literature, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Xiamen University. She majors in modern Japanese literature, and comparative literature and culture of Japan and China.

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