Public spheres, private lives in modern Japan, 1600-1950 / edited by Gail Lee Bernstein, Andrew Gordon, and Kate Wildman Nakai.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Andrew, 1952- editor.

Nakai, Kate Wildman, editor.

Bernstein, Gail Lee, editor.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 238.

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 238

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japan--History--Tokugawa period, 1600-1868.

Japan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, [2005]

Summary:

The eleven chapters in this volume explore the process of carving out, in discourse and in practice, the boundaries delineating the state, the civil sphere, and the family in Japan from 1600 to 1950. One of the central themes in the volume is the demarcation of relations between the central political authorities and local communities. The early modern period in Japan is marked by a growing sense of a unified national society, with a long, common history, that existed in a coherent space. The growth of this national community inevitably raised questions about relationships between the imperial government and local groups and interests at the prefectural and village levels. Moves to demarcate divisions between central and local rule in the course of constructing a modern nation contributed to a public discourse that drew on longstanding assumptions about political legitimacy, authority, and responsibility as well as on Western political ideas.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Gail Lee Bernstein , Andrew Gordon and Kate Wildman Nakai

Gail Lee Bernstein, Andrew Gordon, and Kate Wildman Nakai / Gail Lee Bernstein , Andrew Gordon and Kate Wildman Nakai

Conventional Knowledge in Early Modern Japan / Mary Elizabeth Berry

Local Autonomy in Early Meiji Japan: Competing Conceptions / Kyu Hyun Kim

Tanaka Shōzō's Vision of an Alternative Constitutional Modernity for Japan / Timothy S. George

A Land of Milk and Honey: Rural Revitalization in the 1930s / Kerry Smith

Chisui: Creating a Sacred Domain in Early Modern and Modern Japan / Patricia Sippel

Taming the Iron Horse: Western Locomotive Makers and Technology Transfer in Japan, 1870-1914 / Steven J. Ericson

Women's Rights and the Japanese State, 1880-1925 / Barbara Molony

Men's Place in the Women's Kingdom: New Middle-Class Fatherhood in Taishō Japan / Harald Fuess

Social Networks Among the Daughters of a Japanese Family / Gail Lee Bernstein

Rethinking Japanese-Chinese Cultural Relations in the 1930s / See Heng Teow

Mocking Misery: Grass-Roots Satire in Defeated Japan / John W. Dower

Index / Gail Lee Bernstein , Andrew Gordon and Kate Wildman Nakai

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Gail Lee Bernstein , Andrew Gordon and Kate Wildman Nakai.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68417-402-3

OCLC:

649923343

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684174027 DOI