Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xi
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction 3
6. Manchukuo
7. Tales of Opening Manchuria 19
8. Sakuta Shōichi, “The Light of Asia” 39
9. Writings of Manchukuo’s Prime Minister Zheng Xiaoxu 50
10. Education Policies and Theories in Manchukuo 64
11. The Second Sino-Japanese War, Propaganda, and Medical Publications 78
12. An Inspection Report on Ideological Movements in Literature and Arts Activities 89
13. Collection of Literary Selections by Each Ethnicity in Manchukuo-1, “Statements by Selectors” 103
14. Open Letters from Women Writers of Manchukuo 115
15. The Lives of Korean Women in Manchukuo 128
16. East China
17. Xu Zhuodai, “Remarkable Soy Sauce!” 159
18. The Diary of Zhang Gang 170
19. Two Indestructible Pillars of the Great Wall 190
20. Uchiyama Bookstore 199
21. Finding China’s “Asia” in Japanese Asianism 209
22. Collaboration and Propaganda 223
23. The New Citizens’ Movement and Wang Jingwei-ism 238
24. The Diaries of Zhou Fohai 252
25. Kiang Kang-hu, “Starvation Is a Serious Matter” 270
26. Guan Lu, “How to Be a New Woman” 278
27. Yuan Shu, “The Current Stage of the Chinese Revolution and the Problem of Constitutional Government” 288
28. North China and Beyond
29. Tang Erhe’s Educational Collaboration with Japan in North China, 1937–40 317
30. The Transformation of Zhou Zuoren’s Thought and Rhetorical Strategies Found in His Writing 327
31. Zhou Zuoren’s Letter to Zhou Enlai 342
32. Lin Yutang 364
33. Struggles between Local Powers and Collaboration 374
34. Tapping into the Premodern Work-Contracting System 382
35. An Anarchist Popular Resistance 399
36. Resolutions on Preventing Hanjian Activities and Espionage 412
37. Kishida Kunio and the Problems of Culture 421
38. Contributors 432
39. Index 438