Glorify the Empire
Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2014
- Category
- Propaganda, China, Japan, Asian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774824378
- Publish Date
- Feb 2014
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774824361
- Publish Date
- Feb 2013
- List Price
- $90.00
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Description
In the 1930s and ’40s, Japanese rulers in Manchukuo enlisted writers and artists to promote imperial Japan’s modernization program. Ironically, the cultural producers chosen to spread the imperialist message were previously left-wing politically. In Glorify the Empire, Annika A. Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced avant-garde works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence toward, Japan’s utopian project. A groundbreaking work, this book magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period of Japanese history.
About the author
Awards
- Winner, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize
Contributor Notes
Annika A. Culver is an associate professor of East Asian history at Florida State University. She also serves as a scholar in the US-Japan Network for the Future.