Engineering Asia : Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order

Mizuno, Hiromi (EDT); Moore, Aaron S. (EDT); Dimoia, John (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1350150673 / ISBN 13: 9781350150676

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Engineering Asia : Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350150673
• ISBN 13: 9781350150676
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in the region, Engineering Asia seeks to demonstrate how Asia's present prosperity did not arise from a so-called 'economic miracle' but from the violent and dynamic events 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 that constituted the Cold War system in Asia.

Through highlighting how these networks helped shape Asia's 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 and science will find this book immensely useful.

About the Authors

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).