Mirror of Modernity Invented Traditions of Modern Japan

Name: Mirror of Modernity Invented Traditions of Modern Japan
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ISBN: 9780520206373

ISBN-10: 0520206371

ISBN-13: 9780520206373

Edition: 1998

Authors: Stephen Vlastos

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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.

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 5/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Note on Transliteration



Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History




The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management




The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan




Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition




The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested




Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity




Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth




It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan




Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's "Japan"




Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation




The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo




The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge




At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity




The Cafe Waitress Serving Modern Japan




Constructing Shinano: The Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region




"Doubly Cruel": Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism




The Invention of Edo




Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition/Modernity Binary



Glossary


Selected Bibliography


Contributors


Index