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Tanaka, Stefan

 
9780520077317: Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History
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ISBN 10: 0520077318 ISBN 13: 9780520077317
Editorial: University of California Press, 1993

Sinopsis

This study examines how Japanese historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan faced the necessity of becoming modern while both shedding the Western characterization of "Oriental" and maintaining its own identity. The concept of "toyoshi" (Oriental studies) made it possible to fit the changes of the previous century - the arrival of the West with its technical and cultural baggage and the decline of China - into a comprehensive ideological system. Unlike other scholars, who depict the encounter between Japan and the West as a struggle between modernity and tradition, Tanaka argues that the Japanese were, in fact, attempting to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.

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This study examines how Japanese historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan faced the necessity of becoming modern while both shedding the Western characterization of "Oriental" and maintaining its own identity. The concept of "toyoshi" (Oriental studies) made it possible to fit the changes of the previous century - the arrival of the West with its technical and cultural baggage and the decline of China - into a comprehensive ideological system. Unlike other scholars, who depict the encounter between Japan and the West as a struggle between modernity and tradition, Tanaka argues that the Japanese were, in fact, attempting to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.

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Editorial
University of California Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0520077318
ISBN 13 
9780520077317
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
318
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