Bill Sewell, Constructing Empire: The Japanese in Changchun, 1905-45
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: The Japanese vassal state of Manchukuo in the 1930s may seem an unlikely site for the implementation of a daring modernist experiment in urban planning and architecture but, as Bill Sewell’s Constructing Empire reveals, the Japanese invaders were determined to use their new regional capital of Xinjing, adjacent to the old Chinese city and treaty port of Changchun, as a manifestation of the modernising Japanese state within the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. That the Japanese experim...
Source: ABE Journal
DOI: 10.4000/abe.13488
Author: Peter Cunich
Institution: University of Hong Kong
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4308591126