Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930
Sharon Minichiello
Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "modernist" architecture to women as cultural symbols, popular songs to the rhetoric of empire-building, and more. The volume is organized around three general topics: geographical and cultural space; cosmopolitanism and national identity; and diversity, autonomy, and integration. Within these the authors have identified a number of thematic tensions that link the essays: high and low culture in cultural production and dissemination; national and ethnic identities; empire and ethnicity; the center and the periphery; naichi (homeland) and gaichi (overseas); urban and rural; public and private; migration and barriers. |
Contents
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41 |
IX
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66 |
X
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87 |
XI
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110 |
XII
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129 |
XIII
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151 |
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153 |
XXI
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243 |
XXIII
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261 |
XXIV
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263 |
XXV
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284 |
XXVI
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308 |
XXX
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331 |
XXXI
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354 |
XXXII
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375 |
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Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy ; 1990-1930 Sharon A. Minichiello No preview available - 1998 |
Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930 Sharon Minichiello No preview available - 1998 |