Japan's Competing Modernities

by Minichiello, Sharon

• ISBN13: 9780824820800
• ISBN10: 0824820800
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii, or "Taisho 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 original, new research, covers various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history. 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 alternative avenues of exploration for the study of modern Japanese history and culture. If, as one of t

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Geographical and Cultural Space	p. 23
Peopling the Japanese Empire: The Koreans in Manchuria and the Rhetoric of Inclusion	p. 25
Integrating into Chinese Society:A Comparison of the Japanese Communities of Shanghai and Harbin	p. 45
Space and Aesthetic Imaginationin Some Taishō Writings	p. 70
	p. 91
Naturalizing Nationhood:Ideology and Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Japan	p. 114
Asano Wasaburō and Japanese Spiritualism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan	p. 133
Cosmopolitanism and National Identity	p. 155
Becoming Japanese: Imperial Expansion and Identity Crises in the Early Twentieth Century	p. 157
Culture, Ethnicity, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Japan	p. 181
Writing the National Narrative:Changing Attitudes toward Nation-Building among Japanese Writers, 1900-1930	p. 206
	p. 228
Defining the Modern Nation in Japanese Popular Song, 1914-1932	p. 247
Diversity, Autonomy,and Integration	p. 265
Media Culture in Taishō Osaka	p. 267
Zaikai and Taishō Demokurashii, 1900-1930	p. 288
Fashioning a Culture of Diligence and Trift: Savings and Frugality Campains in Japan, 1900-1931	p. 312
Visions of Women and the New Society in Conflict: Yamakawa Kikueversus Takamure Itsue	p. 335
Broadcasting in Korea, 1924-1937:Colonial Modernity and Cultural Hegemony	p. 358
Contributors	p. 379
Index	p. 383
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