Transwar Asia : ideology, practices, and institutions, 1920-1960
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Transwar Asia : ideology, practices, and institutions, 1920-1960
（SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan）
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-220) and index
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Description
This volume considers the possibilities of the term 'transwar' to understand the history of Asia from the 1920s to the 1960s. Recently, scholars have challenged earlier studies that suggested a neat division between the pre- and postwar or colonial/postcolonial periods in the national histories of East Asia, instead assessing change and continuity across the divide of war. Taking this reconsideration further, Transwar Asia explores the complex processes by which prewar and colonial ideologies, practices, and institutions from the 1920s and 1930s were reconfigured during World War II and, crucially, in the two decades that followed, thus shaping the Asian Cold War and the processes of decolonization and nation state-formation.
With contributions covering the transwar histories of China, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan, the book addresses key themes such as authoritarianism, militarization, criminal rehabilitation, market controls, labor-regimes, and anti-communism. A transwar angle, the authors argue, sheds new light on the continuing problems that undergirded the formation of postwar nation-states and illuminates the political legacies that still shape the various regions in Asia up to the present.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Long Transwar Asia, Reto Hofmann (University of Western Australia, Australia) and Max Ward (Middlebury College, USA)
Part I. Institutional Transwar Regimes
1. Imperial Shift: Rice and Revolution in Transwar Korea, 1939-1949, Yumi Moon (Stanford University, USA)
2. Colonial Militarism in the Transwar East Asia: Indigenous Forces and the Three Waves of Militarizaition, Victor Louzon (Sorbonne University, France)
3. Occupational Hazards in the Transwar Pacific: Imperialism, the US Military, and Filipino Labor, Colleen Woods (University of Maryland, USA)
4. University, Landed Class, and Land Reform: Transwar Origins of Private Universities in South Korea, 1920-1960, Do Young Oh (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)
Part II. Ideological Transwar Regimes
5. Resetting China's Conservative Revolution: 'People's Livelihood' in 1950s Taiwan, Brian Tsui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)
6. 'Volksgeist-ism': Ideational Flows between Europe, Japan, and Indonesia, 1920s-1960s, David Bourchier (University of Western Australia, Australia)
7. Reproducing the "Emperor System Within": Transwar Criminal Rehabilitation and Imperial Benevolence in Japan, 1920-1960, Max Ward (Middlebury College, USA)
Afterword: Transwar as Method, Takashi Fujitani (University of Toronto, Canada)
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