Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture
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Date
2003
Authors
Forêt, Philippe
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Chronos Verlag
Abstract
This empirical study on advertising campaigns and the art of running trains in distant places finds its theoretical significance in a view of history where real and imagined geographies interact. The railroad companies of the Japanese Empire did much more than transport passengers and carry freight: their express trains embodied a particular view of a world centered on racial, nationalist and dynastic myths. Modernity as ideology and the everyday experience of colonialism combined in Manchuria to generate a particular perception of China as a decadent and romantic culture.
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Manchuria (1905-1945), Manchoukuo (1932-1945), South Manchuria Railway Company, Minami Manshû Tetsudô (SMR, Mantetsu), Mukden (Shenyang, China), travel literature, tourism industry, Japanese colonialism, orientalism, Research Subject Categories::HUMANITIES and RELIGION::Religion/Theology::History of religion
Citation
Forêt Philippe, 2003, Chronos Verlag; Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture. http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/1919