Significant soil : : settler colonialism and Japan's urban empire in Manchuria / / Emer O'Dwyer.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 377
• Author: O'Dwyer, Emer Sinéad.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2015.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 377.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 511 pages :); illustrations

"Traces the history of Japan's prewar Manchurian empire over four decades, mapping how South Manchuria--and especially its principal city, Dairen--was naturalized as a Japanese space and revealing how this process ultimately contributed to the success of the Japanese army's early 1930s takeover of Manchuria. Simultaneously, the book demonstrates the conditional nature of popular support for Kwantung Army state-building in Manchukuo, highlighting the settlers' determination that the Kwantung Leasehold and Railway Zone remain separate from the project of total empire"--Provided by the publisher.

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Figures, and Tables -- Note to the Reader -- Part I. Place -- Dairen, A City Like No Other -- Part II. A Place within the Empire -- Sovereignty, Self-Governance, and Colonial Gentlemen, 1905-15 -- Expanding Imperial Privilege, 1913-16 -- A Leasehold Based on Law, 1917-24 -- Part III. The Kingdom of Mantetsu -- Self-Governance, Old and New, 1925-27 -- Settler Politics as a Mass Movement, 1928 -- Saving Manchuria, 1929-1931 -- Part IV. The Boundaries of Significant Soil -- The Manchurian Incident, 1931-33 -- "Dairen Ideology" versus "Shinkyo Ideology," 1933-37 -- Conclusion: Dairen and Shanghai -- Appendix A: Mantetsu Officers and Personnel Ranks -- Appendix B: Supplementary Tables -- Glossary-Index.