New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10735-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 782 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

This volume of proceedings from the Conference on Meiji Studies presents a rare multinational interchange among professors, researchers, and graduate students investigating Japan. The essays reflect both an appreciation of past scholarship and a determination to destabilize existing paradigms about Meiji Japan in favor of a multiplicity of perspectives that privilege subjectivity and non-elite groups.
Attention to relations of power challenges the notions of modernization as the master narrative in Japan's recent history and of consensus as the primary characteristic of social interaction in Japan.
The authors present an array of intellectual perspective on topics in the social sciences, humanities, and arts, employing a variety of theories and methodologies.
The book will be welcomed by readers interested in the Meiji era, contemporary Japan, and postmodern theories of power.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hardacre, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Hardacre, Ph.D. (1980) in History of Religions, University of Chicago, is Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Society and Religions, Harvard University. She has published extensively on modern Japanese religious history, including new religions movements and religion and the state.
Adam L. Kern is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University.