Mirror of modernity : invented traditions of modern Japan / edited by Stephen Vlastos
- Bib ID:
- 276484
- Format:
- Book
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- Description:
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998
- xvii, 328 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0520206215 (alkaline paper)
- 0520206371 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Series:
- Twentieth-century Japan ; 9.
- Full contents:
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- Tradition: past/present culture and modern Japanese history / Stephen Vlastos
- 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
- 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
- Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's 'Japan' / Hashimoto Mitsuru
- Figuring the folk: history, poetics, and representation / H.D. Harootunian
- 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
- At home in the Meiji period: inventing Japanese domesticity / Jordan Sand
- The cafe waitress serving modern Japan / Miriam Silverberg
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-310) and index.
- Subject:
- Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-
- Other authors/contributors:
- Vlastos, Stephen, 1943-
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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