In a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, contributors reexamine the influence of the Japanese on the region known as "Manchuria" from about 1900 to 1945. The seven essays describe the role of the press and propaganda in the creation of a "Manchuria of the mind" in northeast China from 1930 to 1937, order and chaos in the city planning of utopian Manchukuo, Aisin Gioro Xianyu and the dilemma of Manchu identity, rediscovering Manchukuo in Japanese "goodwill films," the fates of Poles in Manchuria, how the legacy of the disciplining state from Manchukuo to South Korea imitated the colonizers, and pan-Asianism in the diary of Morisaki Minato and in the suicide of Mishima Yukio. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)