新书：Constructing Empire The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
Constructing Empire
The Japanese in Changchun, 1905–45
By Bill Sewell
UBC Press
312 pages, 6 x 9
22 photos, 21 tables, 3 maps
Release Date:15 Feb 2019
ISBN:9780774836524
$75.00
内容简介
Civilians play crucial roles in building empires. Constructing Empire shows how Japanese urban planners, architects, and other civilians contributed to constructing a modern colonial enclave in northeast China, their visions shifting over time.
Before 1932, the northeastern city of Changchun was much like other Chinese treaty ports where the Japanese had established themselves in ways similar to other imperialists. But the Japanese thereafter endeavoured to surpass their rivals by transforming the city of Changchun into something much grander – a modern, Asian capital for the new puppet state of Manchukuo. Providing a thematic assessment of the urban environment, economic development, and social change in Changchun, Bill Sewell examines the key organizations involved in the development of the Japanese empire there. Including a discussion of the wartime and immediate postwar eras, Constructing Empire encompasses the entirety of the Japanese presence in Changchun. This book shows how Japanese activities in, and statements about, Manchuria were about more than simply building imperial outposts and enclaves – they were part of broader efforts to assert visions of Japan's evolving place in the world.
This engaging book sheds light on evolving attitudes toward empire and perceptions of national identity among Japanese in Manchuria in the first half of the twentieth century.
Constructing Empire will appeal to academics and other readers interested in the history of the Japanese empire, the origins of the Asia-Pacific War (the Second World War in Asia), Chinese history, urban history, and colonial studies.
目录
Introduction
1 City Planning
2 Imperialist and Imperial Façades
3 Economic Development
4 Colonial Society
Conclusion
Notes; Bibliography; Index
作者简介
Bill Sewell is an associate professor of history at Saint Mary’s University. He has contributed to Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940, edited by Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine; Japan Review; and Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and Future, edited by David W. Edgington. He is also the editor of Resilient Japan: Papers Presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada and Seven Crucial Centuries: Changes in Premodern Chinese Society and Economy, 499 BCE–1800 CE by John Lee.
B.Sc. (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
M.A. (University of California, Davis)
Ph.D. (University of British Columbia)
Publications
Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45 (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2019)
Bill Sewell and Norio Ota, “Sakuta Shōichi, ‘The Light of Asia’,” in Jonathan Henshaw, Craig Smith, and Norman Smith, eds., in Translating the Japanese Occupation of China(Vancouver: UBC Press, forthcoming)
John Lee, Seven Crucial Centuries: Changes in Premodern Chinese Society and Economy, 499 BCE – 1800 CE, ed. Bill Sewell (Halifax: Department of History, Saint Mary’s University, 2016)
"Introduction" and "Manufacturing Japan in Manchuria," in Resilient Japan: Papers Presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada, ed. Bill Sewell (Halifax: Japan Studies Association of Canada, 2013), 6-8, 204-224 (e-book pagination differs)
"Meiji-Taisho Japan," in John Cooper Robinson: Photographs from Meiji-Taisho Japan, ed. Jill Cooper-Robinson, (Blurb, 2012; non-academic publication documenting the John Cooper Robinson Collection now at the Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC)
“Beans to Banners: The Evolving Architecture of Pre-War Changchun," in Harbin to Hanoi: Colonial Built Environment in Asia, 1840 to 1940, ed. Laura Victoir and Victor Zatsepine (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012), 37-57
"Manshukoku kokuto 'Shinkyo' no datsukochiku" (Manchukuo's "New Capital" in Contemporary Perspectives), in Nitchu sensoki Chugoku no shakai to bunka (Chinese Society and Culture during the Sino-Japanese War), ed. Ezra Vogel and Hirano Ken'ichiro (Tokyo: Keio University Press, 2010), 291-327
"Feng Yuxiang," "Harriman Affair," "Manchuria," "South Manchuria Railway," and "Warlordism," in Encyclopedia of Chinese-American Relations, ed. Yuwu Song (McFarland & Company, 2006), 105-106, 128-129, 185-186, 263-264, 306-307
"Crisis, War, and Culture: The Global Significance of Japanese National Cultures," in Why Japan Matters!, ed. Joseph F. Kess and Helen Landsowne (Victoria: Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 2005), 98-108
"Reconsidering the Modern in Japanese History: Modernity in the Service of the Prewar Japanese Empire," Japan Review 16 (2004): 213-258 (available at: http://shinku.nichibun.ac.jp/jpub/pdf/jr/IJ1607.pdf)
"Kyu Manshu ni okeru senzen Nihon no machizukuri katsudo" (Prewar Japanese City Making in Manchuria), Nichibunken Foramu (Nichibunken Forum) 160 (December 2003), 30 pp. (available at: http://www.nichibun.ac.jp/graphicversion/dbase/forum/text/fn160.html)
"Postwar Japan and Manchuria," in Japan at the Millennium: Joining Past and Future, ed. David W. Edgington (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2003), 97-119
"Railway Outpost and Puppet Capital: Urban Expressions of Japanese Imperialism in Changchun, 1905-1945," in Colonialism and the Modern World: Selected Studies, ed. Gregory Blue, Martin Bunton, and Ralph Crozier (Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, 2002), 283-298
"Japanese Imperialism and Civic Construction in Manchuria: Changchun, 1905-1945," unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2000
More than fifty books reviewed in the Canadian Journal of History, Historical Geography, Journal of Urban History, Pacific Affairs, Progress in Development Studies, and the University of Toronto Quarterly, as well as on H-Net (H-Diplo, H-HistGeog, H-Japan, and H-US-Japan)
Constructing Empire displays an extraordinary amount of research and erudition regarding Changchun. As the first substantial study of the capital city of Manchukuo, it is a groundbreaking piece of scholarly work.
This book is the first major study in English that uncovers and evaluates the rich urban history of modern Changchun. In doing so, it makes a valuable contribution to both Chinese and Japanese history, as well as the fields of comparative imperialism and urban historical studies.