Railroad literature on suitable places : How the Japanese government railways forged an "old China" travel culture
Series
Interferenzen
ISBN
3-0340-0648-9
Type
book section
Date Issued
2003
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Burri, Monika
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.
Language
English
Keywords
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
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Die Internationalität der Eisenbahn 1850-1970
Publisher
Chronos
Publisher place
Zurich
Number
7
Start page
309
End page
326
Pages
18
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
215098