🇯🇵 **“Orient Calls”: Anglophone Travel Writing and Tourism as Propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941**

"_This essay argues that Western orientalism is radically repurposed in many of these texts to support Japanese not European imperialism, presenting a benign, pacific image of Japan and empire as a convenient but exotic travel site, which either occludes or naturalizes the war in line with official propaganda aims._"

ELLIOTT, Andrew. “‘Orient Calls’: Anglophone Travel Writing and Tourism as Propaganda during the Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941.” Japan Review, no. 33 (2019): 117–42. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26652978.

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