Toshie A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan

Name: Toshie A Story of Village Life in Twentieth-Century Japan
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ISBN: 9780520240971

ISBN-10: 0520240979

ISBN-13: 9780520240971

Edition: 2005

Authors: Simon Partner

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Sakaue Toshieacute; was born on August 14, 1925, into a family of tenant farmers and day laborers in the hamlet of Kosugi. The world she entered was one of hard labor, poverty, dirt, disease, and frequent early death. By the 1970s, that rural world had changed almost beyond recognition.Toshieacute;is the story of that extraordinary transformation as witnessed and experienced by Toshieacute; herself. A sweeping social history of the Japanese countryside in its twentieth-century transition from "peasant" to "consumer" society, the book is also a richly textured account of the life of one village woman and her community caught up in the inexorable march of historical events. Through the lens…

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List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/25/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Simon Partner, Associate Professor at Duke University, is author of "Toshie: A Story of Rural Life in Twentieth Century Japan "and "Assembled in Japan: Electrical Goods and the Making of the Japanese Consumer "(both from UC Press).



List of Figures


Preface



On the Banks of the Agano



The Making of a Japanese Citizen



The Village Goes to War



Rural Life Under the Occupation



Red Carpets and Whisky


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index