In this powerful and provocative book, Prasenjit Duara uses the
case of Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in northeast China
from 1932-1945, to explore how such antinomies as imperialism and
nationalism, modernity and tradition, and governmentality and
exploitation interacted in the post-World War I period. His study
of Manchukuo, which had a population of 40 million and was three
times the area of Japan, catalyzes a broader understanding of new
global trends that characterized much of the twentieth century.
Asking why Manchukuo so desperately sought to appear sovereign,
Duara examines the cultural and political resources it mobilized to
make claims of sovereignty. He argues that Manchukuo, as a
transparently constructed "nation-state," offers a unique
historical laboratory for examining the utilization and
transformation of circulating global forces mediated by the "East
Asian modern." Sovereignty and AUthenticity not only shows how
Manchukuo drew technologies of modern nationbuilding from China and
Japan, but it provides a window into how some of these techniques
and processes were obscured or naturalized in the more successful
East Asian nation-states. With its sweepingly original theoretical
and comparative perspectives on nationalism and imperialism, this
book will be essential reading for all those interested in
contemporary history.
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