Glorify the EmpireIn the 1930s and 40s, Japanese rulers in Manchukuo enlisted writers and artists to promote imperial Japans modernization program. Ironically, the cultural producers chosen to spread the imperialist message were once left wing politically in Japan, where their work strongly favoured modernist, even avant garde, styles of expression. In Glorify the Empire, Annika A. Culver explores how these once anti imperialist intellectuals produced avant garde works