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edition:Paperback
also available: Hardcover
category: Political Science
published: Feb 2014
ISBN:9780774824378
publisher: UBC Press

Glorify the Empire

Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo

by Annika A. Culver

tagged: propaganda, asian, china, japan
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

Annika A. Culver

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.

Awards
  • Winner, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies Book Prize
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