Significant soil : : settler colonialism and Japan's urban empire in Manchuria /

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

"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 1930...

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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 377
:
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 ;
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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.

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