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Mirror of modernity
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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 "age-old" Japanese cultural practices, ranging from judo to labor management, and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.
| Title |
Mirror of modernity : invented traditions of modern Japan |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] University of California Press |
| Creation Date |
1998 |
| Notes |
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph Issued also in print. English |
| Content |
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION -- 1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History -- PART ONE Harmony -- 2. The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management -- 3. The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image of Prince Shötoku in Modern Japan -- 4. Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition -- PART TWO Village -- 5. The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested -- 6. Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity -- 7. Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth -- 8. It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan -- PART THREE Folk -- 9. Chihd: Yanagita Kunio' s "Japan" -- 10. Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation -- PART FOUR Sports -- 11. The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kanojigoro and Kodokanjudo -- 12. The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge -- PART FIVE Gender -- 13. At Hom e in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity -- 14. The Cafe Waitress Serving Moder n Japan -- PART SIX History -- 15. Constructing Shinano: Th e Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region -- 16. "Doubly Cruel" : Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism -- 17. The Invention of Edo -- 18. Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition/Modernity Binary -- GLOSSARY -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX |
| Series |
Twentieth-century Japan Mirror of modernity |
| Extent |
1 online resource (300 p.) : 12 b/w photographs |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010702668905171 |
MARC RECORDS
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