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Peasants, rebels, women, and outcastes : the underside of modern Japan / by Mikiso Hane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hane, Mikiso.
- Series:
- Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
- Asian voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Social conditions.
- Japan.
- Social conditions.
- Japan--History--19th century.
- History.
- Japan--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 347 pages : maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
- Summary:
- Uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's booming economic growth.
- Contents:
- Japanese Weights and Measures ix
- Modernization and the Peasants 2
- Farming and Farm Life 28
- Morals and Mores 50
- Rural Women 78
- The Struggle for Survival 102
- The Outcaste in Japan 138
- The Textile Factory Workers 172
- Poverty and Prostitution 206
- The Coal Miners 226
- Women Rebels 246
- Epilogue: The Postwar Years 294.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Pantheon Books, 1982.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0742525244
- 0742525252
- OCLC:
- 50803465
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