Japanese Marxist : a portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946 / Gail Lee Bernstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bernstein, Gail Lee.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 152.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 152

Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 152

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kawakami, Hajime, 1879-1946.

Kawakami, Hajime.

Economists--Japan--Biography.

Economists.

Socialists--Japan--Biography.

Socialists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 221 p. ) ports. ;

Distribution:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1976.

Other Title:

A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946

Place of Publication:

Boston : Harvard University Asia Center, 1976.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It is the merit of Gail Lee Bernstein's portrait of Kawakami Hajime that he emerges as a recognizable human being, a truly modern figure reflecting in his own life a personal and hard-won balance between traditional Japanese values and the demands of modernization. The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his own unique terms, and, finally, the author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature, Kawakami Hajime is an important figure in the history of modern Japan.At each stage of Kawakami's winding path to Marxism--from patriotic nationalist to academic Marxist to revolutionary Communist--his concern for the ethical and economic problems that emerged in the course of Japan's astonishingly rapid industrialization dominated his consciousness. Bernstein provides a portrait of Kawakami's complex personality as well as an elegantly shaped narrative of the context and content of Japanese left-wing politics in the 1920s, and she makes plain the kinds of cultural conflict that modernization, in its several varieties, bequeathed to Japanese intellectuals.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

A Young Man of Meiji Japan

Crisis

Meiji Dropout

The Way in the Modern World

Japan and the West

The Road to Marxism

The Meaning of Marxism

Historical Materialism and Revolutionary Will

The Professor as Political Activist

Working for the Communist Party

Prison Years and Beyond

Notes

Bibliography

Glossary

Index

Harvard East Asian Monographs.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781684172917

1684172918

9780674471948

0674471946

OCLC:

317459506

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684172917 DOI