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Japan's orient - rendering pasts into history
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tanaka, Stefan, Author.
- Series:
- ACLS Fellows' Publications.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japan--Historiography.
- Japan.
- Japan--Civilization--Chinese influences.
- China--Study and teaching--Japan.
- China.
- China--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 305 p. ) ill.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1995
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts-Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese-to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Discovery of History
- PART ONE Finding Equivalence
- PART TWO Creating Difference
- Epilogue: The Renovation of the Past
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780520916685
- 0520916689
- 9780585108339
- 0585108331
- OCLC:
- 1414456565
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb33071 hdl
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