GLORIFY THE EMPIRE: JAPANESE AVANT-GARDE PROPAGANDA IN MANCHUKUO
Book ID/图书代码： 13351016B97256
English Summary/英文概要： Winner, 2014 SCAAS Book Prize, Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
In the 1930s and ’40s, Japanese political architects of the Manchukuo project in occupied northeast China realized the importance of using various cultural media to promote a modernization program in the region, as well as its expansion into other parts of Asia. Ironically, the writers and artists chosen to spread this imperialist message had left-wing political roots in Japan, where their work strongly favoured modernist, even avant-garde, styles of expression.
In Glorify the Empire, Annika Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced modernist works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence towards, Japan’s utopian project. During the war, literary and artistic representations of Manchuria accelerated, and the Japanese-led culture in Manchukuo served as a template for occupied areas in Southeast Asia. A groundbreaking work, Glorify the Empire magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period in Japanese history.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书在亚洲研究学会的东南亚会议上赢得了2014年度SCAAS图书奖。
二十世纪的30到40年代，日本操纵的满洲国占据了中国东北的土地，他们意识到在当地利用各种文化载体进行宣传活动的重要性，并将如此举动推进到亚洲的其他地区。讽刺的是，被选中进行创作的作者和艺术家都是日本左翼分子，他们的作品强烈地展现出了现代派、甚至前卫的创作理念。
在本书中，Annika Culver探索了这些曾经反对帝国主义的学者如何最终为了一个法西斯统治的地区摇旗呐喊，只因为这个项目在他们眼中是日本的乌托邦，反应出其中的复杂性。在战时，满洲国的文学和艺术都得以加速进步，日本占领下的满洲国是东南亚的发展模板。本书探讨了政治和艺术是如何在一个很少被研究的历史时期交织相融的。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：本书深刻而生动地研究了日本帝国主义的文化。Culver展现了那些日本左翼学者】作家和艺术家们并非因为害怕政府而支持日本在中国东北的殖民扩张，而是满洲国代表了东亚现代化的前景，而这些左翼分子确实是真心地相信这是非常有创建性的一个未来。（Erik Esselstrom，著有《Crossing Empire’s Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia》）
"Glorify the Empire is a deeply fascinating study in the culture of Japanese imperialism. Culver shows how many left-wing Japanese intellectuals, writers, and artists came to support Japanese colonial expansionism in China’s northeast, not solely in response to intimidation by their authoritarian state, but because Manchukuo represented a vision of East Asian modernity those leftists found genuinely inspirational."
-- Erik Esselstrom, author of Crossing Empire’s Edge: Foreign Ministry Police and Japanese Expansionism in Northeast Asia
"Culver’s intriguing research delves into the question: What happened to Japanese leftist artists and their moves to oppose empire? Glorify the Empire illuminates the results of Japan’s suasion campaigns, which pushed these leftists into supporting the imperial cause by travelling to Manchuria, where their careers flourished. In so doing, it neatly overturns a widely held myth about the split between left and right political spheres in Japan."
-- Barak Kushner, author of The Thought War: Japanese Imperial Propaganda
About the Author/作者介绍： Annika A. Culver是弗罗里达州立大学东亚历史学副教授。她也是日美Network for the Future组织的学者。
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.
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