Yamaji Aizan and His Time

Nationalism and Debating Japanese History
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-905246-16-8
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill NV

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Global Oriental

This first in-depth study in English of one of Japan’s popular historians and a well-known journalist of the Meiji and Taish periods challenges the conventional view that Yamaji Aizan was essentially a ‘nationalist’ at heart eager to see Japan expand into Asia and a supporter of the colonization of Korea.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ito, Yushi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; 1 Yamaji Aizan's early life; 2 The liberation and oppression of the human spirit; 3 An approach to history; 4 The progressive view of history; 5 Social history (1) - Neglected commoners; 6 Social history (2) - Japan as a heterogeneous nation; 7 Social history (3) - Japan as a maritime nation; 8 The state and the individual, 1897-1917; 9 Korea and China; 10 International education and national education; Conclusion: Yamaji Aizan's legacy; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Yushi Ito is Director, Japanese Programme, School of Asian and European Languages and Cultures, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Recent publications include Nashonarizumu to rekishi ronso – Yamaji Aizan to sono jidai [Nationalism and Debating History – Yamaji Aizan and his Time] (Tokyo, 2005), ‘National History vs Japanese History - Yamaji Aizan's View of Japan and the World’ (in: Asian Futures, Asian Traditions (2005)), ‘Japanese Nationalism and China's Independence - Yamaji Aizan 1865-1917’ (in: Japanese Cultural Nationalism – at Home and in the Asia Pacific (2003)). His current areas of research are conflicting views of the world in modernizing Japan and the place of Okinawa in Japanese history.