The Search for a New Order: Intellectuals and Fascism in Prewar Japan - Hardcover

Fletcher III, William Miles

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0807815144 ISBN 13: 9780807815144

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 1982

Synopsis

Fletcher explains how three writers--Ryu Shintaro, Royama Masamichi, and Miki Kiyoshi--who were supporters of democratic socialism became ideologues for the East Asian bloc ideal that rationalized Japan's dominance of Asia after 1937, and he demonstrates how and why they designed the New Order movement of 1940. He concludes that the advocacy of fascism was a reasoned effort to respond to the ills of industrialization and the challenges of mobilization for war.

Originally published in 1982.

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Edition details

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0807815144
• ISBN 13: 9780807815144
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236