東華大學圖書館 |

Language: English

Help

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

Back

Switch To: Labeled | MARC Mode | ISBD

Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilizat...

Chatani, Sayaka.

Linked to FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895-1945.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895-1945./
Author:	Chatani, Sayaka.
Description:	369 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International76-03A(E).
Subject:	Asian Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3643856
ISBN:	9781321318197

Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895-1945.
Chatani, Sayaka.

Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895-1945. - 369 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2014.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

By the turn of the twentieth century, "rural youth" came to symbolize the spirit of hard work, masculinity, and patriotism. The village youth associations, the seinendan, as well as a number of other youth training programs, carried that ideal and spread it all over the Japanese empire. This dissertation examines how the movement to create "rural youth" unfolded in different parts of the empire and how young farmers responded to this mobilization. By examining three rural areas in Miyagi (northern Japan), Xinzhu (Taiwan), and South Ch'ungch'o&caron;ng (Korea), I argue that the social tensions and local dynamics, such as the divisions between urban and rural, the educated and the uneducated, and the young and the old, determined the motivations and emotional drives behind youth participation in the mobilization. To invert the analytical viewpoint from the state to youth themselves, I use the term "Rural Youth Industry." This indicates the social sphere in which agrarian youth transformed themselves from perpetual farmers to success-oriented modern youth, shared an identity as "rural youth" by incorporating imperial and global youth activism, and developed a sense of moral superiority over the urban, the educated, and the old. The social dynamics of the "Rural Youth Industry" explain why many of these youth so internalized the ideology of Japanese nationalism that they volunteered for military service and fought for the empire.

ISBN: 9781321318197Subjects--Topical Terms:

1669375
Asian Studies.

Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895-1945.
LDR:03687nmm a2200313 4500 001 2056743
005 20150608135954.5
008 170521s2014 ||||||||||||||||| ||eng d
020 $a 9781321318197
035 $a (MiAaPQ)AAI3643856
035 $a AAI3643856
040 $a MiAaPQ $c MiAaPQ
100 1 $a Chatani, Sayaka. $3 3170520
245 1 0 $a Nation-Empire: Rural Youth Mobilization in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea 1895-1945.
300 $a 369 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 76-03(E), Section: A.
500 $a Adviser: Charles K. Armstrong.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2014.
506 $a This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
520 $a By the turn of the twentieth century, "rural youth" came to symbolize the spirit of hard work, masculinity, and patriotism. The village youth associations, the seinendan, as well as a number of other youth training programs, carried that ideal and spread it all over the Japanese empire. This dissertation examines how the movement to create "rural youth" unfolded in different parts of the empire and how young farmers responded to this mobilization. By examining three rural areas in Miyagi (northern Japan), Xinzhu (Taiwan), and South Ch'ungch'o&caron;ng (Korea), I argue that the social tensions and local dynamics, such as the divisions between urban and rural, the educated and the uneducated, and the young and the old, determined the motivations and emotional drives behind youth participation in the mobilization. To invert the analytical viewpoint from the state to youth themselves, I use the term "Rural Youth Industry." This indicates the social sphere in which agrarian youth transformed themselves from perpetual farmers to success-oriented modern youth, shared an identity as "rural youth" by incorporating imperial and global youth activism, and developed a sense of moral superiority over the urban, the educated, and the old. The social dynamics of the "Rural Youth Industry" explain why many of these youth so internalized the ideology of Japanese nationalism that they volunteered for military service and fought for the empire.
520 $a This dissertation offers a new perspective to the study of modern empires in several respects. It provides a new way to dissect the colonial empire, challenging the methodological trap of emphasizing the present-day national boundaries of Japan, Taiwan, and Korea. It highlights rural modernity, often neglected in the urban-centric historiography of colonial modernity. It also brings together global, regional, and local histories. The seinendan were part of the global waves of imperialism, nation-state building, agrarianism, and the rise of youth. I argue that the spread of the "Rural Youth Industry" most clearly exemplifies a central characteristic of the Japanese empire, which is summarized as its drive to pursue nation-building across its imperial domains, forming a "nation-empire." This dissertation examines the operations of the "nation-empire" at the grassroots level by comparing the social environments of mobilized agrarian youth. Situating the practices of the Japanese empire in these broader contexts as well as the specific local conditions of village societies, this dissertation illuminates the nature of mass mobilization and the shifting relationship between the state and society in the first half of the twentieth century.
590 $a School code: 0054.
650 4 $a Asian Studies. $3 1669375
650 4 $a History, Asia, Australia and Oceania. $3 626624
650 4 $a History, Modern. $3 516334
690 $a 0342
690 $a 0332
690 $a 0582
710 2 $a Columbia University. $b History. $3 2093946
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 76-03A(E).
790 $a 0054
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2014
793 $a English
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3643856