Engineering Asia (SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan): Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order - Hardcover

Hiromi Mizuno; Aaron S. Moore; John DiMoia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350063924 ISBN 13: 9781350063921

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

Weaving together chapters on Imperial Japans wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asias present prosperity was born not of a so-called economic miracle but of violent and dynamic eras of the 20th century. The book argues that what continued to operate throughout these tumultuous eras were engineering networks of technology. Constructed at first for colonial development under Japan, these networks transformed into channels of overseas development aid set broadly under the US Cold War system in Asia. Through highlighting how these networks helped shape Asias contemporary economic landscape, Engineering Asia challenges dominant narratives in Western scholarship of an economic miracle in Japan and South Korea, and the Asian Tigers of Southeast Asia. Students and scholars of East Asian studies, development studies, postcolonialism, Cold War studies and the history of technology will find this book immensely useful.

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About the Author

Hiromi Mizuno is Associate Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, USA. She is the author of Science for the Empire: Scientific Nationalism in Modern Japan (2009). Aaron S. Moore is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, USA. He is the author of Constructing East Asia: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan's Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (2013). John DiMoia is Associate Professor of Korean History at Seoul National University, South Korea. He is the author of Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health, and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945 (2013).

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350063924
• ISBN 13: 9781350063921
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Hiromi Mizuno
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Aaron S. Moore, John DiMoia