Human Tradition in Modern Japan

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their stories present a counterweight to the prevailing stereotypes, providing students with depictions of real people through the records they have left-records that detail experiences and aspirations. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan offers a human-scale perspective that focuses on individuals, reconstitutes the meaning of people's experiences as they lived through them, and puts a human face on history. It skillfully bridges the divides between the sexes, between the local and the national, and between rural and urban, as well as spanning crucial moments in the history of modern Japan. The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is an excellent resource for courses on Japanese history, East Asian history, and peoples and cultures of Japan.

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Utgivningsdatum:2002-01-01
Mått:148 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:349 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Human Tradition around the World series
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Scholarly Resources Inc.,U.S.
ISBN:9780842029124

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Anne Walthall teaches Japanese history at the University of California, Irvine.

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The Human Tradition in Modern Japan illustrates the themes of 'big history' through the flesh-and-blood experiences of real people: a pop star, a feudal administrator, an Okinawan peasant-turned-official, a lesbian novelist, a princess, an economist, the mother of a prime minister. It beautifully enriches our understanding of Japan's last 350 years by humanizing, and thus complicating, it. The writing is lively and accessible.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 Introduction: On the Trail of People in the PastPart 2 I: The World of Shogun, Samurai, and Court, 1600-1868Chapter 3 Shinanomiya Tsuneko: Portrait of a Court LadyChapter 4 Mori Yoshiki: Samurai Government OfficerPart 5 II: The Meiji Restoration and the Transformation of State and SocietyChapter 6 Nishimiya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable SkillsChapter 7 The Ishizaka of Notsuda: A family in TransitionPart 8 III: Building the Modern StateChapter 9 Hatoyama Haruko (1861-1938): Ambitious WomanChapter 10 Jahana Noboru: Okinawan Activist and ScholarChapter 11 Kinoshita Yoshio: Revolutionizing Service on Japan's National RailroadsPart 12 IV: Twentieth-Century VicissitudesChapter 13 Matsuura Isami (1880-1962): A Modern Patriarch in Rural JapanChapter 14 Yoshiya Nobuko: Out and Outspoken in Practice and ProseChapter 15 Takahashi Masao (1901-1995): Flexible MarxistPart 16 V: World War II and the Postwar WorldChapter 17 Yokoi Shoichi: When a Soldier Finally Returns HomeChapter 18 Misora Hibari: The Postwar Myth of Mournful Tears and SakeChapter 19 Index