Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture / Donald H. Shively.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shively, Donald H., editor.

Conference on Modern Japan.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Studies in the Modernization of Japan ; 4814

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--Civilization--Western influences.

Japan.

Japan--Civilization--1868-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (711 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions.Originally published in 1971.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Editor's Preface

PART ONE. Strategies for Modernizing

Introduction

CHAPTER I. On the Nature of Western Progress: The Journal of the Iwakura Embassy / Soviak, Eugene

CHAPTER II .Westernization and Japanization: The Early Meiji Transformation of Education / Nagai, Michio

CHAPTER III. The Japanization of the Middle Meiji / Shively, Donald H.

CHAPTER IV. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-95 and Its Cultural Effects in Japan / Keene, Donald

PART TWO. The Arts in the Meiji Period

CHAPTER V. Western-Style Painting in the Early Meiji Period and Its Critics / Rosenfield, John M.

CHAPTER VI. The Formation of Realism in Meiji Painting: The Artistic Career of Takahashi Yuichi / Haga, Tōru

CHAPTER VII. The Modern Music of Meiji Japan / Malm, William P.

PART THREE. The Search for Identity in Literature

CHAPTER VIII. Natsume Sōseki and the Psychological Novel / Hibbett, Howard S.

CHAPTER IX. Toson and the Autobiographical Novel / McClellan, Edwin

CHAPTER X. Masaoka Shiki and Tanka Reform / Brower, Robert H.

CHAPTER XI. Kobayashi Hideo / Seidensticker, Edward

CHAPTER XII. Fukuda Tsuneari: Modernization and Shingeki / Ortolani, Benito

PART FOUR. Philosophy, Religion, and Language

CHAPTER XIII. Nishida Kitarō: The Early Years / Viglielmo, Valdo Humbert

CHAPTER XIV. Millenarian Aspects of the New Religions in Japan / Blacker, Carmen

CHAPTER XV. Levels of Speech (keigo) and the Japanese Linguistic Response to Modernization / Miller, Roy Andrew

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Index

Notes:

Papers from the fifth seminar of the Conference on Modern Japan, held in Puerto Rico, January, 1966.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-691-61718-X

0-691-64433-0

0-691-00020-4

1-4008-6901-3

OCLC:

933516285