The No1 Ethical retailer for Books, CD’s, DVD’s & Games
30 Day Refund Guarantee

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

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

by Aaron S. Moore (Author), Hiromi Mizuno (Author), John DiMoia (Author)

  • New

    Hardcover 2018

    $200.87
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.

$200.87

Quantity

20+ in stock

More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 256
 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 26 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 1350063924
ISBN 13: 9781350063921
Book Overview: Examines networks of engineering in Asia from the pre-WWII era through the 1970s and their role in the reconfiguration of colonial Asia into Cold War Asia.

Media Reviews
Focusing on science and technology in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia- and in concrete rice, chemicals, highways, dams, oil, and more - this extraordinary collaboration provides a unique and critical perspective on both colonialism and its postcolonial reincarnation as Cold War developmentalism and overseas aid. While based upon meticulous empirical research, the book also provides sweeping insights into the intra-Asian connections among the major players that both depended upon and yet exceeded U.S. Cold War projects in the region. Sophisticated and yet eminently accessible, this is transnational history writing at its best and should be read by a wide audience both inside and outside of Asian Studies. * Takashi Fujitani, Professor in Asia-Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, Canada *
Author Bio
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).