Mirror of Modernity

Invented Traditions of Modern Japan
1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-20637-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Reihe: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power

This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition, sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices, ranging from judo to labor management, and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vlastos, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History  Stephen Vlastos

PART ONE • HARMONY
2. The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management
Andrew Gordon
3. The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image
of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan
Ito Kimio
4. Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition Frank K Upham

PART TWO • VILLAGE
5.  The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested Irwin ScheMer
6.  Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity Stephen Vlastos
7.  Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth Louise Young
8.  It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan Jennifer Robertson

PART THREE • FOLK
9. Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's lapan"
Hashimoto Mitsuru
to. Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation
H. D. Harootunian

PART FOUR • SPORTS
The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo Inoue Shun
12.  The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge
Lee A. Thompson

PART FIVE • GENDER
13.  At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity Jordan Sand
14.  The Cafe Waitress Serving Modern Japan Miriam Silverberg

PART SIX • HISTORY
15.  Constructing Shinano: The Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region Karen Wigen
16.  "Doubly Cruel": Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism Andrew E. Barshay
17.  The Invention of Edo Carol Gluck
18. Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition /Modernity Binary

Dipesh Chakrabarty
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Vlastos is Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and author of Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (California, 1986).