Transwar Asia

Reto Hofmann is Senior Lecturer in Asian Studies at the University of Western Australia. He is author of The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952 (2015) and is currently writing a transwar history of Japanese conservatism.Max Ward is Associate Professor of Japanese History at Middlebury College, USA. He is the author of Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan (2019) and co-editor of Confronting Capital and Empire: Rethinking Kyoto School Philosophy (2017).

• Introduction: The Long Transwar Asia, Reto Hofmann (University of Western Australia, Australia) and Max Ward (Middlebury College, USA)Part I. Institutional Transwar Regimes1. Imperial Shift: Rice and Revolution in Transwar Korea, 1939-1949, Yumi Moon (Stanford University, USA)2. Colonial Militarism in the Transwar East Asia: Indigenous Forces and the Three Waves of Militarizaition, Victor Louzon (Sorbonne University, France)3. Occupational Hazards in the Transwar Pacific: Imperialism, the US Military, and Filipino Labor, Colleen Woods (University of Maryland, USA)4. University, Landed Class, and Land Reform: Transwar Origins of Private Universities in South Korea, 1920-1960, Do Young Oh (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)Part II. Ideological Transwar Regimes5. Resetting China’s Conservative Revolution: ‘People’s Livelihood’ in 1950s Taiwan, Brian Tsui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)6. ‘Volksgeist-ism’: Ideational Flows between Europe, Japan, and Indonesia, 1920s–1960s, David Bourchier (University of Western Australia, Australia)7. Reproducing the “Emperor System Within”: Transwar Criminal Rehabilitation and Imperial Benevolence in Japan, 1920–1960, Max Ward (Middlebury College, USA)Afterword: Transwar as Method, Takashi Fujitani (University of Toronto, Canada)BibliographyIndex

Pursuing a transwar perspective, both as analytic method and alternative history, these essays cross the alleged rupture of 1945 to show the connections across time from the 1920s to the 1960s and across space in the entangled nations and empires in Asia and beyond. Their fascinating topics and compelling arguments bring new depth to the term "transwar".