Japans Pan-Asian Empire

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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