Faye Yuan Kleeman, In Transit : The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere

With In Transit: The Formation of the Colonial East Asian Cultural Sphere, Faye Yuan Kleeman adopts an interdisciplinary and multi-textual approach for providing a transnational history of Japan's "empire-wide cultural sphere" (9), and the multi-faceted ways in which individuals were embroiled within this sphere.By the onset of the Pacific War, this "cultural sphere" had become articulated within government propaganda as the geopolitical construct of the "Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere," the paradigmatic expression of Japanese imperialist ideology.It is this ideological understanding of