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Japan's Modern Myths
Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
Av Carol Gluck
Häftad, 1987
514 kr
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Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World …
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan
The Case of Dazai Osamu
Häftad, 2014
535 kr
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Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural …
Chinese Pioneer Family
The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895
Av Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill
Häftad, 2017
1120 kr
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In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well. Originally …
Teachers and Politics in Japan
Häftad, 2015
1041 kr
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The Japan Teachers' Union, which represents 500,000 elementary and lower secondary school teachers, is an important interest group in Japanese politics. It is especially significant as a radical group operating both within and outside the political system and in direct conflict with conservative …
