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Transwar Asia : ideology, practices, and institutions, 1920-1960 / edited by Reto Hoffman and Max Ward

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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
227 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Hofmann, Reto, 1975- and Ward, Max M., 1973-

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Introduction. The long transwar in Asia / Reto Hofmann and Max Ward -- Imperial Shift : rice and revolution in transwar Korea, 1939-1949 / Yumi Moon -- Colonial militarism in transwar East Asia : indigenous forces and the three waves of militarization / Victor Louzon -- Occupational hazards in the transwar Pacific : imperialism, the U.S. military, and Filipino labor / Colleen Woods -- University, landed class, and land reform : transwar origins of private universities in South Korea, 1920-1960 / Do Young Oh -- Resetting China's conservative revolution : "people's livelihood" in 1950s Taiwan / Brian Tsui -- "Volksgeist-ism :" ideational flows between Europe, Japan and Indonesia, 1920s-1960s / David Bourchier -- Reproducing the 'emperor-system within' : transwar criminal rehabilitation and imperial benevolence in Japan, 1920-1960 / Max Ward -- Afterword. Transwar as method / Takashi Fujitani.
Summary
"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"--
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9781350182813 hardcover
1350182818 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Barbara S. Klein Libraries Collection Endowment in Art History and International Affairs
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