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Winner of the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association and Hiromi Arisawa Award of the American Association of University Presses.

Table of Contents

List of Map and Tables 
Acknowledgments 
Note on Sources 
PART I THE MAKING OF A TOTAL EMPIRE
1. Manchukuo and Japan 
2. The Jewel in the Crown: The International Context of Manchukuo 
PART II THE MANCHURIAN INCIDENT AND THE NEW MILITARY
IMPERIALISM, 1931-1933
3· War Fever: Imperial Jingoism and the Mass Media 
4· Go-Fast Imperialism: Elite Politics and Mass Mobilization 
PART III THE MANCHURIAN EXPERIMENT IN COLONIAL
DEVELOPMENT, 1932-1941
5· Uneasy Partnership: Soldiers and Capitalists in the Colonial Economy 
6. Brave New Empire: Utopian Vision and the Intelligentsia 
PART IV THE NEW SOCIAL IMPERIALISM AND THE FARM
COLONIZATION PROGRAM, 1932-1945
7· Reinventing Agrarianism: Rural Crisis and the Wedding of Agriculture to Empire
8. The Migration Machine: Manchurian Colonization and State Growth 
9· Victims of Empire 
PART V CONCLUSION
10. The Paradox of Total Empire 
Bibliography 
Index 

About the Author

Louise Young is Assistant Professor of History at New York University.

Reviews

"Young's extraordinary book will force historians of Japan to rethink their treatment of Manchukuo. Young's study also joins the new comparative scholarship on imperialism, which analyzes its transforming power not only on the colony but also on the metropole. She has thus created an essential work of scholarship for students of comparative imperialist history."--Parks M. Coble, "American Historical Review