Multiethnic Japan

Name: Multiethnic Japan
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ISBN: 9780674013582

ISBN-10: 0674013581

ISBN-13: 9780674013582

Edition: 2001

Authors: John Lie

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Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society. Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), Chinese, Koreans, and Okinawans. In so doing, he depicts the trajectory of modern Japanese identity. Surprisingly, Lie argues that the belief in a monoethnic Japan is a post-World War II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of the…

Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.69" wide x 8.94" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface


A Note on Terminology


Introduction



The Second Opening of Japan



The Contemporary Discourse of Japaneseness



Pop Multiethnicity



Modern Japan, Multiethnic Japan



Genealogies of Japanese Identity and Monoethnic Ideology



Classify and Signify


Conclusion


Appendix: Multilingual Japan


References


Index