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Summary:

This work examines the creation of an East Asian cultural sphere by the Japanese imperial project in the first half of the twentieth century. It seeks to re-read the "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere" not as a mere political and ideological concept but as the potential site of a vibrant and productive space that accommodated transcultural interaction and transformation. By reorienting the focus of (post)colonial studies from the macro-narrative of political economy, military institutions, and socio-political dynamics, it uncovers a cultural and personal understanding of life within the Japanese imperial enterprise. To engage with empire on a personal level, one must ask: What made ordinary citizens participate in the colonial enterprise? What was the lure of empire? How did individuals not directly invested in the enterprise become engaged with the idea? Explanations offered heretofore emphasize the potency of the institutional or ideological apparatus. Faye Yuan Kleeman asserts, however, that desire and pleasure may be better barometers for measuring popular sentiment in the empire--what Raymond Williams refers to as the "structure of feeling" that accompanied modern Japan's expansionism. The negative impact of Japanese imperialism on both nations and societies has been amply demonstrated and cannot be denied, but In Transit focuses on the opportunities and unique experiences it afforded a number of extraordinary individuals to provide a fuller picture of Japanese colonial culture. By observing the empire-- from Tokyo to remote Mongolia and colonial Taiwan, it explores an area of colonial experience that straddles the public and the private, the national and the personal, thereby revealing a new aspect of the colonial condition and its postcolonial implications.

Table of Contents:

• Miyazaki Tōten: the last revolutionary rebel
• Kawahara Misaoko: daughter, teacher, good wife, wise mother, and spy
• Private body and public deployment
• Gender, ethnicity, and the spectacles of the empire
• Colonial women and the primitive: Masugi Shizue and Sakaguchi Reiko
• Dancers of the empire.

Author/Creator:

Kleeman, Faye Yuan , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

In transit: the formation of the colonial East Asian cultural sphere [by Kleeman, F.Y.]

Related Series:

World of East Asia

Subjects:

East Asia — Civilization — 20th century

Women — East Asia — History — 20th century

Japan — Colonies — Asia

Imperialism — Social aspects — East Asia — History — 20th century

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-277) and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

DS509.3 .K59 2014eb

ISBNs:

9780824838614 (electronic bk.)
0824838610 (electronic bk.)
9780824838607 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]
0824838602 (cloth, alk. paper) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: 40023526089

OCLC Numbers:

875894840

Other Control Numbers:

EBC3413722 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp11728414