Ebook: Gender and nation in Meiji Japan : modernity, loss, and the doing of history
Author: Jason G. Karlin
- Tags: Nationalism -- Japan., Japan -- History -- Meiji period 1868-1912., Japan -- Civilization -- Western influences., Japan -- Social life and customs -- 1868-1912., Japan -- Historiography., Civilization -- Western influences., Historiography., Manners and customs., Nationalism., Japan.
- Year: 2016
- Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
- Language: English
- epub
Presents an historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. Through an analysis of the experience of rapid social change in Japan's modernization, it argues that fads and the desires they express are central to understanding Japanese modernity, conceptions of gender, and discourses of nationalism.
Abstract: Presents an historical analysis of the discourses of nostalgia in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japan. Through an analysis of the experience of rapid social change in Japan's modernization, it argues that fads and the desires they express are central to understanding Japanese modernity, conceptions of gender, and discourses of nationalism