Article: Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism.(Review)

Japan's Total Empire: Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism, by Louise Young. Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1998. xiv, 490 pp. $45.00 U.S.

The economic depression and the growth of Chinese nationalism in the late 1920s triggered Japanese territorial expansion encompassing four telescopic stages: Manchuria, Northern China, Eastern China, and Greater East Asia. Louise Young's superb effort focuses on the military, economic, and colonizatory dimensions of the "total empire" in Manchuria -- the first, longest-lasting, and most important segment of Japanese incremental imperialism. Japan had obtained a partial foothold in the area ...

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