Book
Mirror of modernity : invented traditions of modern Japan
Record details
- ISBN: 0520206215 (alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520206371 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
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xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Book review available at http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b3g2-aa |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-310) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History / Stephen Vlastos -- Part One: Harmony -- The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management / Andrew Gordon -- The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan / Ito Kimio -- Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition / Frank K. Upham -- Part Two: Village -- The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested / Irwin Scheiner -- Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity / Stephen Vlastos -- Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth / Louise Young -- It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan / Jennifer Robertson -- Part Three: Folk -- Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's ``Japan'' / Hashimoto Mitsuru -- Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation / H.D. Harootunian -- Part Four: Sports -- The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo / Inoue Shun -- The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge / Lee A. Thompson -- Part Five: Gender -- At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity / Jordan Sand -- The Cafe Waitress Serving Modern Japan / Miriam Silverberg -- Part Six: History -- Constructing Shinano: The Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region / Karen Wigen -- ``Doubly Cruel'': Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism / Andrew E. Barshay -- The Invention of Edo / Carol Gluck -- Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition/Modernity Binary / Dipesh Chakrabarty. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lansdowne Library | DS 822.25 M57 1998 (Text) | 26040002529556 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
