Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930

Published by University of Hawaii Press 1998

Japan's Competing Modernities

Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930

Edited by: Sharon Minichiello

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824863159

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Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "modernist" architecture to women as cultural symbols, popular songs to the rhetoric of empire-building, and more. The volume is organized around three general topics: geographical and cultural space; cosmopolitanism and national identity; and diversity, autonomy, and integration. Within these the authors have identified a number of thematic tensions that link the essays: high and low culture in cultural production and dissemination; national and ethnic identities; empire and ethnicity; the center and the periphery; naichi (homeland) and gaichi (overseas); urban and rural; public and private; migration and barriers.

The volume opens up new avenues of exploration for the study of modern Japanese history and culture. If, as one of the authors contends, the imperative is " to understand more fully the historical forces that made Japan what it is today," these studies of Japan's "competing modernities" point the way to answers to some of the country's most challenging historical questions in this century.

Contributors: Gail L. Bernstein, Barbara Brooks, Lonny E. Carlile, Kevin M. Doak, Joshua A. Fogel, Sheldon Garon, Elaine Gerbert, Jeffrey E. Hanes, Helen Hardacre, Sharon A. Minichiello, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Jonathan M. Reynolds, Michael Robinson, Roy Starrs, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Julia Adeney Thomas, E. Patricia Tsurumi, Christine R. Yano.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I: Geographical and Cultural Space
1. Peopling the Japanese Empire: The Koreans in Manchuria and the Rhetoric of Inclusion Barbara J. Brooks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
2. Integrating into Chinese Society: A Comparison of the Japanese Communities of Shanghai and Harbin Joshua A. Fogel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
3. Space and Aesthetic Imagination in Some Taishò Writings Elaine Gerbert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
4. The City and the Countryside: Competing Taishō “Modernities” on Gender Mariko Asano Tamanoi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
5. Naturalizing Nationhood: Ideology and Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Julia Adeney Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
6. Asano Wasaburò and Japanese Spiritualism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Helen Hardacre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
II: Cosmopolitanism and National Identity
7. Becoming Japanese: Imperial Expansion and Identity Crises in the Early Twentieth Century Tessa Morris-Suzuki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
8. Culture, Ethnicity, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Japan Kevin M. Doak Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
9. Writing the National Narrative: Changing Attitudes toward Nation-Building among Japanese Writers, 1900–1930 Roy Starrs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
10. The Bunriha and the Problem of “Tradition” for Modernist Architecture in Japan, 1920–1928 Jonathan M. Reynolds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
11. Defining the Modern Nation in Japanese Popular Song, 1914–1932 Christine R. Yano Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
III: Diversity, Autonomy, and Integration
12 Media Culture in Taishò Osaka Jeffrey E. Hanes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
13 Zaikai and Taishò Demokurashii, 1900–1930 Lonny E. Carlile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	288
14 Fashioning a Culture of Diligence and Thrift: Savings and Frugality Campaigns in Japan, 1900–1931 Sheldon Garon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312
15 Visions of Women and the New Society in Conflict: Yamakawa Kikue versus Takamure Itsue E. Patricia Tsurumi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	335
16 Broadcasting in Korea, 1924–1937: Colonial Modernity and Cultural Hegemony Michael E. Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
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Published: September 1, 1998
ISBN: 9780824863159