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19 produkter
Abacus and the Sword
The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910
Av Peter Duus
Häftad, 1998
471 kr
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What forces were behind Japan's emergence as the first non-Western colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century? Peter Duus brings a new perspective to Meiji expansionism in this pathbreaking study of Japan's acquisition of Korea, the largest of its colonial possessions. He shows how Japan's …
Mirror of Modernity
Invented Traditions of Modern Japan
Häftad, 1998
441 kr
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This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition, sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine …
Complicit Fictions
The Subject in the Modern Japanese Prose Narrative
Häftad, 1993
443 kr
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In "Complicit Fictions", James Fujii challenges traditional approaches to the study of Japanese narratives and Japanese culture in general. He employs current Western literary-critical theory to reveal the social and political contest inherent in modern Japanese literature and also confronts recent …
Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan
Häftad, 1992
471 kr
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"Labor and Imperial Democracy in Prewar Japan" examines the political role played by working men and women in prewar Tokyo and offers a reinterpretation of the broader dynamics of Japan's prewar political history. Gordon argues that such phenomena as riots, labor disputes, and union organizing can …
Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920
Av Kären Wigen
Inbunden, 1995
794 kr
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Contending that Japan's industrial and imperial revolutions were also geographical revolutions, Karen Wigen's interdisciplinary study analyzes the changing spatial order of the countryside in early modern Japan. Her focus, the Ina Valley, served as a gateway to the mountainous interior of central …
Hiroshima Traces
Time, Space, and the Dialectics of Memory
Häftad, 1999
343 kr
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Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the 'dialectics of memory.' She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in …
Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan
Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics
Inbunden, 1996
968 kr
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During the interwar years in Japan, discourse on culture turned sharply inward after generations of openness to Western ideas. The characterizations that arose - that Japanese culture is unique, essential, and enduring - came to be accepted both inside and outside Japan. Leslie Pincus focuses on …
Splendid Monarchy
Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan
Häftad, 1998
412 kr
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Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of …
Marketing the Menacing Fetus in Japan
Häftad, 1999
428 kr
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Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo--a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts …
Japan's Total Empire
Manchuria and the Culture of Wartime Imperialism
Av Louise Young
Häftad, 1999
334 kr
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In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and 1945, Young considers "metropolitan effects" …
City as Subject
Seki Hajime and the Reinvention of Modern Osaka
Inbunden, 2002
794 kr
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In exploring the career of Seki Hajime (1873-1935), who served as mayor of Japan's second-largest city, Osaka, Jeffrey E. Hanes traces the roots of social progressivism in prewar Japan. Seki, trained as a political economist in the late 1890s, when Japan was focused single-mindedly on "increasing …
Reconfiguring Modernity
Concepts of Nature in Japanese Political Ideology
Inbunden, 2002
735 kr
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Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that …
Perfectly Japanese
Making Families in an Era of Upheaval
Av Merry White
Häftad, 2002
290 kr
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Are Japanese families in crisis? In this dynamic and substantive study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of "family making" in the past hundred years-the Meiji era and postwar period-to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed. The models had little to do with …
Reasonable Men, Powerful Words
Political Culture and Expertise in Twentieth Century Japan
Av Laura Hein
Inbunden, 2005
735 kr
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Reasonable Men, Powerful Words traces the development of political culture in twentieth-century Japan through a social and intellectual biography of six Japanese economists who influenced national political life in significant ways. The global ascendance of social scientists is one of the defining …
Lever of Empire
The International Gold Standard and the Crisis of Liberalism in Prewar Japan
Av Mark Metzler
Inbunden, 2006
1058 kr
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This book, the first full account of Japan's financial history and the Japanese gold standard in the pivotal years before World War II, provides a new perspective on the global political dynamics of the era by placing Japan, rather than Europe, at the center of the story. Focusing on the fall of …
Social Sciences in Modern Japan
The Marxian and Modernist Traditions
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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This incisive intellectual history of Japanese social science from the 1890s to the present day considers the various forms of modernity that the processes of "development" or "rationalization" have engendered and the role social scientists have played in their emergence. Andrew E. Barshay argues …
Ordinary Economies in Japan
A Historical Perspective, 1750-1950
Inbunden, 2009
1058 kr
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Tetsuo Najita explores a powerful theme in the economic thought and practice of ordinary citizens in late Tokugawa and early modern Japan. He examines commoners' writings on the virtues of commerce, the reconstruction of villages, and groups offering credit and loans, particularly the traditional …
Rediscovering America
Japanese Perspectives on the American Century
Inbunden, 2011
882 kr
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In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by …
Rediscovering America
Japanese Perspectives on the American Century
Häftad, 2011
316 kr
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In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by …
