In Transit: The Formation of a Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere

by Faye Yuan Kleeman

This work examines the creation of an East Asian cultural sphere by the Japanese imperial project in the first half of the twentieth century. It seeks to re-read the "Greater East Asian Co-prosperity Sphere" not as a mere political and ideological concept but as the potential site of a vibrant and productive space that accommodated transcultural interaction and transformation. By reorienting the focus of (post)colonial studies from the macro-narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824838602
• ISBN13: 9780824838607
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"