Interwar Japan beyond the West : the search for a new subjectivity in world history / by Oliviero Frattolillo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frattolillo, Oliviero, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization--Western influences.

Japan.

Japan--History--1868-.

Japan--Foreign relations--Western countries.

Western countries--Foreign relations--Japan.

Western countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (141 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the late nineteenth century, Japan was the only non-Western country to have successfully faced the challenges of Westernization. At the end of the Meiji Era, just three decades after the end of the country's feudal age, it became Great Britain's ally, while its soldiers were deployed in Beijing, operating alongside the great European powers. Meanwhile, in Japan, the perception of a scientifically and technologically advanced West came to be imbued by negative connotations, generated by the...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - THE RISE OF MILITARISM IN JAPAN: EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL DIMENSIONS; 1.1 - Variables of Japanese militarism; 1.2 - The Mukden Incident and the spread of war; 1.3 - The New Asian Order: Japan's descent into the ""Dark Valley""; CHAPTER TWO - THE SEARCH FOR A NEW CULTURAL IDENTITY IN INTERWAR JAPAN; 2.1 - Rationalism and cultural criticism; 2.2 - Nihon kaiki, or the "return to the roots"; 2.3 - Combining Lebensraum with Nipponism; CHAPTER THREE - OVERTHROWING THE ORTHODOXY: THE KYOTO PARADIGM FACING THE PACIFIC WAR

3.1 - Assessing the Kyoto paradigm3.2 - For a new philosophy of World History; 3.3 - Overcoming modernity; 3.4 - Overthrowing the orthodoxy; CHAPTER FOUR - INBETWEENESS AND JAPANESE SUBJECTIVITY IN THE INTERWAR YEARS: A CULTURAL REVERSAL FRAME; 4.1 - Introducing Watsuji; 4.2 - The "uniqueness of Japan": a syndrome of culturalexceptionalism?; 4.3 - Embracing in-betweenness for a new subjectivity; 4.4 - A cultural reversal frame; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4438-6511-7

OCLC:

884726238