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Author Swale, Alistair, author.

Title The Meiji Restoration : monarchism, mass communication and conservative revolution / Alistair D. Swale
Published Basingstoke, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (x, 206 pages)
Contents Japan within the world system : urbanization, political stasis and Western economic expansion -- The Meiji coup d'etat -- Mass media and the development of civil culture -- "The more thorough fulfillment of the Restoration" -- The imperial household, the popular press and the contestation of public space -- Conclusion : conservatism, traditionalism and restoration
Summary This book re-evaluates the Meiji Restoration of 1868 from the perspective of political conservatism, a category which is largely neglected in the scholarship on Japan's political development in the nineteenth century. It also critiques the persistent tendency to frame the explanation of the events of that period in terms of the precedents of Western experience - the spread of Enlightenment ideals, popular revolution, and 'modernization'. Approaching the event from the context of the Western encroachments on East Asia in the 1840s the book highlights the first conservative responses to that threat and how they evolved into a distinctly modern political force in both the government and the world of letters. The Restoration of 1868 itself is characterized as but one stage in a more protracted struggle to redefine the polity and the nature of public space with the primary aim of national preservation rather than 'Westernization'. Within this context indigenous expressions of reaction and conservatism are analyzed in their evolution into mass-media oriented ideological movements and are highlighted as being by far the most substantial and decisive forces in the development of Japan's modern political culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Monarchy -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Communication -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Conservatism -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Political culture -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Social change -- Japan -- History -- 19th century
Asian history -- Japan.
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 -- Japan.
Social & cultural history -- Japan.
HISTORY.
History.
Communication -- Political aspects
Conservatism
Mass media -- Political aspects
Monarchy
Political culture
Politics and government
Social change
Meijireform
Meiji-restauratie.
SUBJECT Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069482
Japan -- History -- Meiji period, 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069489
Japan -- Politics and government -- 19th century
Subject Japan
Japan.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230245792
023024579X
1282742752
9781282742758