Technology of Empire

Telecommunications and Japanese Expansion in Asia, 1883–1945

2003 • 486 pages

The central argument of this study of the development of a communications network linking the far-flung parts of the Japanese imperium is that modern telecommunications not only served to connect these territories but, more important, made it possible for the Japanese to envision an integrated empire in Asia.

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Harvard East Asian Monographs

Harvard East Asian Monographs is a 54-book series with 56 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, Andrew Gordon, and Alexander Barton Woodside.