Glorify the Empire ─ Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo

Culver (Asian history and Asian studies, U. of North Carolina-Pembroke) investigates Japanese intellectuals who, in the context of Japanese-occupied Manchukuo in China, either underwent a political conversion or at least expressed tacit support for Imperial Japan in the build up to World War II. The writers, photographers, and artists she examines were representatives of the cutting edge of their fields during the 1930s and 1940s, and had earlier expressed radical tastes either in aesthetics, such as surrealism, or in politics, such as proletarianism, along with their avant-garde forms of representation. Distributed in the US by the University of Washington Press and in Canada by the University of Toronto Press. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Annika A. Culver is an assistant professor of East Asian history at Florida State University. She also serves as a scholar in the US-Japan Network for the Future.