The limits of Okinawa : Japanese capitalism, living labor, and theorizations of community / Wendy Matsumura.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Matsumura, Wendy, 1977-

Series:

Asia-Pacific.

Asia-pacific: culture, politics, and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Okinawa-ken (Japan)--Economic conditions.

Okinawa-ken (Japan).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Summary:

Since its incorporation into the Japanese nation-state in 1879, Okinawa has been seen by both Okinawans and Japanese as an exotic "South," both spatially and temporally distinct from modern Japan. In The Limits of Okinawa, Wendy Matsumura traces the emergence of this sense of Okinawan difference, showing how local and mainland capitalists, intellectuals, and politicians attempted to resolve clashes with labor by appealing to the idea of a unified Okinawan community. Their numerous confrontations with small producers and cultivators who refused to be exploited for the sake of this ideal produce

Contents:

The birth of Okinawa prefecture and the creation of difference

The Miyako Island Peasantry Movement as an event

Reforming old customs, transforming women's work

The impossibility of plantation sugar in Okinawa

Uneven development and the rejection of economic nationalism in "Sago Palm Hell" Okinawa

Living labor and the limits of Okinawan community.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822358015

0822358018

9780822376040

0822376040

OCLC:

1141661826