Glorify the Empire
May 26, 2014
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18762876-glorify-the-empire?from_search=true Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo by Annika A Culver In the 1930's…
Annika Culver
Professor Annika A. Culver was educated at the University of Chicago, Harvard University, and Vassar College. She also serves as a scholar in Cohort II of the US-Japan Network for the Future. Before coming to Florida State, she taught at the University of Chicago, Beijing University, Skidmore College, and the University of North Carolina. Dr. Culver has published articles in US-Japan Women's Journal, Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, Perspectives [Overseas Young Chinese Forum], and History Compass, and has given television and radio interviews on history and foreign policy issues, including J-WAVE. Her research interests include Manchuria/Manchukuo, Japanese cultural imperialism, politics and the arts in East Asia, propaganda/advertising/gender and consumption, Sino-Japanese relations, and US-Japan relations. In association with the Institute for WWII and the Human Experience, Dr. Culver is also leading the digitization of the Oliver Austin Collection of slides, which features scenes from Tokyo under the US Occupation. Her recent book, Glorify the Empire: Japanese Avant-Garde Propaganda in Manchukuo (University of British Columbia Press), explores how once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced modernist works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence towards, Japan's utopian project. During the war, literary and artistic representations of Manchuria accelerated, and the Japanese-led culture in Manchukuo served as a template for occupied areas in Southeast Asia. A groundbreaking work, Glorify the Empire magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period in Japanese history. Dr. Culver recently received the William F. Sibley Memorial Translation Prize for the English translation of Japanese proletarian writer and activist Nakano Shigeharu's 1928 short story Mosukuwa sashite [Heading for Moscow], which details the travails of two Korean activists during their clandestine journey on foot from colonial Korea through Manchuria to get to the Trans-Siberian Railway end station in Mongolia on their way to Moscow. She has received grants and fellowships from USIIE (Fulbright), Japan Foundation (Book Subvention), Kajima Foundation (Book Subvention), Association for Asian Studies (China and Inner Asia Council), and the Institute for Advanced Study (Visitor Affiliation). Current projects include a book chapter, “Japanese Mothers and Rural Settlement in Wartime Manchukuo: Gendered Reflections of Labor and Productivity in Manchuria Graph, 1938-1943” for Dana Cooper and Claire Phelan, eds., Motherhood and War (Palgrave McMillan), and a monograph on images of Japanese consumer products in early 20th century East Asia.
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