Japanese cultural nationalism : at home and in the Asia Pacific / edited by Roy Starrs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starrs, Roy, Author.

Contributor:

Starrs, Roy, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nationalism--Japan.

Nationalism.

Acculturation--Japan.

Acculturation.

National characteristics, Japanese.

Japan--Social life and customs.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 295 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Folkestone, Kent : Global Oriental, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume explores the notion of Japanese cultural nationalism as both a domestic as well as an exported phenomenon.

Contents:

Introduction / Roy Starrs

PART ONE: JAPANESE CULTURAL NATIONALISM AT HOME

National poetics and national identity / Sukehiro Hirakawa

The domestic and the foreign in Heian literature / Moriyuki Ito

Tsuda Umeko and Meiji cultural nationalism discourse / Linda L. Johnson

Nitobe Inazō and Japanese nationalism / George M. Oshiro

Nishida Kitarō and nationalism / Takao Hagiwara

Nation and region in the work of Dazai Osamu / Roy Starrs

The legacy of Shiba Ryōtarō / Hidehiro Nakao

Cultural nationalism in Japanese language textbooks / Akemi Dobson

The Koto, traditional music, and an idealized Japan: cultural nationalism in music performance and education / Henry Johnson

The beauty of personal sorrow in war: Kike wadatsumi no koe / Eric Dowling

PART TWO: JAPANESE CULTURAL NATIONALISM IN AN ASIA-PACIFIC CONTEXT

Race-ing Japan / Rumi Sakamoto

Shiga Shigetaka (1863-1927) and New Zealand as a model for Japan / Masako Gavin

Japanese nationalism and China's independence; Yamaji Aizan 1865-1917 / Yushi Ito

Envisioning a liberal empire: a dialectical imagination between cultural nationalism and cultural internationalism in modern Japan, 1905-1919 / Jung-Sun N. Han

Dunhuangology as nationalist apparatus: the Kyoto School of Oriental Studies and its connections with modern Chinese historiography / Aida Y. Wong

The Japanese occupation of micronesia in the context of imperialism / Ken Henshall

Wrestling with foreign Yokozuna / Howard Gilbert.

Notes:

Earlier versions of some of the essays were delivered at the Otago Conference on Japanese Cultural Nationalism at St. Margaret's College, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20-22 August 2002.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-282-08892-0

9786612088926

OCLC:

815775404