J Charles Schencking
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 355343 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Charles Schencking |
| PRENOMES | J Charles |
| SOBRENOME | Schencking |
| ASSINATURA | SCHENCKING J C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2557-9955 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 31 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Acts of Humanity, Expectations of Returns
Why do we give to distant sufferers in need? Are we motivated primarily by altruism or opportunism? What, if anything, do givers expect in return for significant acts of generosity? This article explores these questions through an examination of corporate giving to Japan from America's industrial heartland following the Great Kantō Earthquake. Large corporate donations comprised a significant part of America's "tsunami of aid" to Japan in 1923. W…
Generosity Betrayed
Between 1941 and 1945, Americans expressed outrage over Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent military aggression. Numerous commentators, citizens, and opinion-makers looked beyond wartime atrocities and regularly vilified Japanese for the crime of “ingratitude.” Japan, they argued, had not merely attacked the country that had opened it to the outside world a century earlier, but had also declared war on the people who had saved its citiz…
Objects of Concern, Ambassadors of Gratitude
Following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, Japanese children became viewed and portrayed as distinct suffers with unique needs by concerned elites and average citizens on both sides of the Pacific. Our article examines how children emerged as objects of investigation in which adults sought to understand how the disaster affected them both physically and mentally. Their power, however, went beyond fostering empathy and eliciting sympathy. Children…
Giving Most and Giving Differently
In December 1923, the Japanese Emergency Earthquake Relief Bureau [Rinji shinsai kyūgo jimukyoku] (EERB) took an action that could have been diplomatically disastrous: It sold flour and wheat.1 These commodities were not ordinary bags of agricultural sustenance, but rather humanitarian relief supplies donated by the United States following Japan’s most deadly and destructive natural disaster of the modern era. Months earlier, knowledge that Sovie…
Aaron Stephen Moore. Constructing East Asia
Historians interested in how science and technology shaped Japan and its wartime empire have been rewarded with a handful of excellent studies published over the past five years by Yang Daqing, Janis Mimura, and Mizuno Hiromi. Aaron Stephen Moore's book adds to this illustrious canon. Moore argues that technology was “much more than simply advanced machinery and infrastructure” (p. 6). Rather, “it included a subjective, ethical, and visionary dim…
The Great Kant? Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties ab…
The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties ab…
The Allies Against the Rising Sun
War is political and politics are often influenced by perceptions and suspicions. Throughout America's war against Japan, many elected politicians, military leaders, and members of the press held s
Tokyo as a Devastated War and Occupation Zone
This article documents how Japan's governing elites confronted the enormous tasks of restoring order over the disaster area of the Great Kantō Earthquake and providing relief and recovery assistance to approximately two million people. It also explores how and why numerous commentators evoked the imagery of war in constructing the 1923 catastrophe. They employed comparisons to war not only to describe the totality of destruction meted out by the …
The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in 1920s Japan
This article explores the Great Kanto Earthquake as a window into Japan of the 1920s and examines how this disaster was interpreted and used for political, ideological, and social ends. I suggest that a wide cross-section of commentators described the disaster as an act of divine punishment to admonish Japan’s subjects for leading what many claimed were self-centered, immoral, and extravagant lifestyles. I further argue that the disaster nurtured…
Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation
Earthquake and fire destroyed the greater part of Tokyo. Thoroughgoing reconstruction needed. Please come immediately if possible, even if for a short stay.' So cabled Viscount Gotô Shinpei, former mayor of Tokyo (1920-1923) and current Home Minister to his long-time friend and Director of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, Charles A. Beard. Six days earlier, on 1 September 1923, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude between 7.9 and 8…
Making Waves
This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent,' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus—if not the overriding preoccupation—of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. This study convincingly demonstrates that as the Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders ex…
The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Constructed Consciousness of a South Seas Destiny, 1872-1921
Similar to the romanticized images that Manchuria would evoke with Japanese citizens looking for a better life in the 1930s, but on a larger geographical scale and over a longer chronological period, the Nan'yô, or South Seas, conjured up a multiple of idyllic visions within the imaginations of many Japanese. In Japanese perception over the course of the Meiji and Taishô periods, the Nan'yô became a region as diverse and as expansive as the inter…
Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and Japan's Southern Advance
Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation
Earthquake and fire destroyed the greater part of Tokyo. Thoroughgoing reconstruction needed. Please come immediately if possible, even if for a short stay.' So cabled Viscount Gotô Shinpei, former mayor of Tokyo (1920-1923) and current Home Minister to his long-time friend and Director of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, Charles A. Beard. Six days earlier, on 1 September 1923, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude between 7.9 and 8…
The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in 1920s Japan
This article explores the Great Kanto Earthquake as a window into Japan of the 1920s and examines how this disaster was interpreted and used for political, ideological, and social ends. I suggest that a wide cross-section of commentators described the disaster as an act of divine punishment to admonish Japan’s subjects for leading what many claimed were self-centered, immoral, and extravagant lifestyles. I further argue that the disaster nurtured…
Generosity Betrayed
Between 1941 and 1945, Americans expressed outrage over Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent military aggression. Numerous commentators, citizens, and opinion-makers looked beyond wartime atrocities and regularly vilified Japanese for the crime of “ingratitude.” Japan, they argued, had not merely attacked the country that had opened it to the outside world a century earlier, but had also declared war on the people who had saved its citiz…
Tokyo as a Devastated War and Occupation Zone
This article documents how Japan's governing elites confronted the enormous tasks of restoring order over the disaster area of the Great Kantō Earthquake and providing relief and recovery assistance to approximately two million people. It also explores how and why numerous commentators evoked the imagery of war in constructing the 1923 catastrophe. They employed comparisons to war not only to describe the totality of destruction meted out by the …
The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Constructed Consciousness of a South Seas Destiny, 1872-1921
Similar to the romanticized images that Manchuria would evoke with Japanese citizens looking for a better life in the 1930s, but on a larger geographical scale and over a longer chronological period, the Nan'yô, or South Seas, conjured up a multiple of idyllic visions within the imaginations of many Japanese. In Japanese perception over the course of the Meiji and Taishô periods, the Nan'yô became a region as diverse and as expansive as the inter…
Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and Japan's Southern Advance
Bureaucratic Politics, Military Budgets and Japan's Southern Advance
The Imperial Japanese Navy and the Constructed Consciousness of a South Seas Destiny, 1872-1921
Similar to the romanticized images that Manchuria would evoke with Japanese citizens looking for a better life in the 1930s, but on a larger geographical scale and over a longer chronological period, the Nan'yô, or South Seas, conjured up a multiple of idyllic visions within the imaginations of many Japanese. In Japanese perception over the course of the Meiji and Taishô periods, the Nan'yô became a region as diverse and as expansive as the inter…
Making Waves
This book explores the political emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy between 1868 and 1922. It fundamentally challenges the popular notion that the navy was a 'silent,' apolitical service. Politics, particularly budgetary politics, became the primary domestic focus—if not the overriding preoccupation—of Japan's admirals in the prewar period. This study convincingly demonstrates that as the Japanese polity broadened after 1890, navy leaders ex…
Catastrophe, Opportunism, Contestation
Earthquake and fire destroyed the greater part of Tokyo. Thoroughgoing reconstruction needed. Please come immediately if possible, even if for a short stay.' So cabled Viscount Gotô Shinpei, former mayor of Tokyo (1920-1923) and current Home Minister to his long-time friend and Director of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, Charles A. Beard. Six days earlier, on 1 September 1923, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude between 7.9 and 8…
The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Culture of Catastrophe and Reconstruction in 1920s Japan
This article explores the Great Kanto Earthquake as a window into Japan of the 1920s and examines how this disaster was interpreted and used for political, ideological, and social ends. I suggest that a wide cross-section of commentators described the disaster as an act of divine punishment to admonish Japan’s subjects for leading what many claimed were self-centered, immoral, and extravagant lifestyles. I further argue that the disaster nurtured…
Tokyo as a Devastated War and Occupation Zone
This article documents how Japan's governing elites confronted the enormous tasks of restoring order over the disaster area of the Great Kantō Earthquake and providing relief and recovery assistance to approximately two million people. It also explores how and why numerous commentators evoked the imagery of war in constructing the 1923 catastrophe. They employed comparisons to war not only to describe the totality of destruction meted out by the …
The Great Kant? Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties ab…
The Great Kantō Earthquake and the Chimera of National Reconstruction in Japan
In September 1923, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake devastated eastern Japan, killing more than 120,000 people and leaving two million homeless. Using a rich array of source material, J. Charles Schencking tells for the first time the graphic tale of Tokyo's destruction and rebirth. In emotive prose, he documents how the citizens of Tokyo experienced this unprecedented calamity and explores the ways in which it rattled people's deep-seated anxieties ab…
The Allies Against the Rising Sun
War is political and politics are often influenced by perceptions and suspicions. Throughout America's war against Japan, many elected politicians, military leaders, and members of the press held s
Aaron Stephen Moore. Constructing East Asia
Historians interested in how science and technology shaped Japan and its wartime empire have been rewarded with a handful of excellent studies published over the past five years by Yang Daqing, Janis Mimura, and Mizuno Hiromi. Aaron Stephen Moore's book adds to this illustrious canon. Moore argues that technology was “much more than simply advanced machinery and infrastructure” (p. 6). Rather, “it included a subjective, ethical, and visionary dim…
Giving Most and Giving Differently
In December 1923, the Japanese Emergency Earthquake Relief Bureau [Rinji shinsai kyūgo jimukyoku] (EERB) took an action that could have been diplomatically disastrous: It sold flour and wheat.1 These commodities were not ordinary bags of agricultural sustenance, but rather humanitarian relief supplies donated by the United States following Japan’s most deadly and destructive natural disaster of the modern era. Months earlier, knowledge that Sovie…
Objects of Concern, Ambassadors of Gratitude
Following the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake, Japanese children became viewed and portrayed as distinct suffers with unique needs by concerned elites and average citizens on both sides of the Pacific. Our article examines how children emerged as objects of investigation in which adults sought to understand how the disaster affected them both physically and mentally. Their power, however, went beyond fostering empathy and eliciting sympathy. Children…
Generosity Betrayed
Between 1941 and 1945, Americans expressed outrage over Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent military aggression. Numerous commentators, citizens, and opinion-makers looked beyond wartime atrocities and regularly vilified Japanese for the crime of “ingratitude.” Japan, they argued, had not merely attacked the country that had opened it to the outside world a century earlier, but had also declared war on the people who had saved its citiz…
Acts of Humanity, Expectations of Returns
Why do we give to distant sufferers in need? Are we motivated primarily by altruism or opportunism? What, if anything, do givers expect in return for significant acts of generosity? This article explores these questions through an examination of corporate giving to Japan from America's industrial heartland following the Great Kantō Earthquake. Large corporate donations comprised a significant part of America's "tsunami of aid" to Japan in 1923. W…
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