Description |
vi, 295 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Part One: Japanese cultural nationalism at home. 1. National poetics and national identity -- 2. The domestic and the foreign in Heian literature -- 3. Tsuda Umeko and Meiji cultural nationalism discourse -- 4. Nitobe Inazo and Japanese nationalisam -- 5. Nishida Kitaro and nationalism -- 6. Nation and region in the work of Dazai Osamu -- 7. The legacy of Shiba Ryotaro -- 8. Cultural nationalism in Japanese language textbooks -- 9. The Koto, traditional music and an idealized Japan: cultural nationalism in music performance and education -- 10. The beauty of personal sorrow in war: Kike wadatsumi no koe. Part Two: Japanese cultural nationalism in an Asia-Pacific context. 11. Race-ing Japan -- 12. Shiga Shigetaka (1863-1927) and New Zealand as a model for Japan -- 13. Japanese nationalism and China's independence: Yamaji Aizan 1865-1917 -- 14. Envisioning a liberal empire: a dialectical imagination between cultural nationalism and cultural interanationalism in Modern Japan, 1905-1919 -- 15. Dunhuangology as nationalist apparatus: the Kyoto school of oriental studies and its connections with modern Chinese histiography -- 16. The Japanese occupationof Micronesia in the context of imperalism -- 17. Wrestling with foreign Yokozuna |
Analysis |
Cultural nationalism |
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Japanese cultural nationalism |
Notes |
Earlier versions of some of the essays were delivered at the Otago Conference on Japanese Cultural Nationalism at St. Margaret's College, Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand, 20-22 August 2002 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Acculturation -- Japan.
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National characteristics, Japanese.
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Nationalism -- Japan.
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SUBJECT |
Japan -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069579
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Author |
Starrs, Roy, 1946-
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ISBN |
1901903117 |
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