Japan's Modern Myths Ideology in the Late Meiji Period / Carol Gluck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gluck, Carol, 1941-

Series:

Studies of the East Asian Institute

Studies of the East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology.

Ideologie.

Ideología.

Japan.

Japan--Histoire--1868-1912 (Ère Meiji).

Japan--History--1868-1945.

Meiji, keizer van Japan, 1852-1912.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1985.

Summary:

Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.

Contents:

Cover Page

Half-title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication Page

Contents

I. Ideology And Imperial Japan

The Subject of Ideology

The Ideological Process

II. The Late Meiji Period

A Time of Settlement

A Sense of Nation

A Complicated Society

Ideology and Its Time

III. The Body Politic

An Unprecedented Ceremony

The Denaturing of Politics

The Kan and the Min

The Gentlemen of the Diet

IV. The Modern Monarch

Custodians of the Imperial Image

The Emperor's Regal Roles

Local Renderings of the Emperor

V. Civil Morality

Morality and Nation

Patriotism and the Uses of Foreigners

The Glory of our Kokutai

The Schools and Civil Tutelage

VI . Social Foundations

Social Fevers

The Agrarian Myth andjichi

Ideologies of Striving and Success

VII. End of An Era

The New Politics of Taisho

A Parliamentary Ideology

VIII. The Language of Ideology

The Grammar of Ideology

The Context of Ideology

Orthodoxy and Diversity

IX. Epilogue: Ideology And Modern Japan

Bibliography

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-311) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691054490

0691054495

OCLC:

1255235961