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This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition, sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices, ranging from judo to labor management, and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.
Price: $33.95
Pages: 300
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
Publication Date:
01 May 1998
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520206373
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Stephen Vlastos is Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and author of Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (California, 1986).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History
Stephen Vlastos
PART ONE • HARMONY
2. The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management
Andrew Gordon
3. The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image
of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan
Ito Kimio
4. Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition Frank K Upham
PART TWO • VILLAGE
5. The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested Irwin ScheMer
6. Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity Stephen Vlastos
7. Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth Louise Young
8. It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan Jennifer Robertson
PART THREE • FOLK
9. Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's lapan"
Hashimoto Mitsuru
to. Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation
H. D. Harootunian
PART FOUR • SPORTS
The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo Inoue Shun
12. The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge
Lee A. Thompson
PART FIVE • GENDER
13. At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity Jordan Sand
14. The Cafe Waitress Serving Modern Japan Miriam Silverberg
PART SIX • HISTORY
15. Constructing Shinano: The Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region Karen Wigen
16. "Doubly Cruel": Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism Andrew E. Barshay
17. The Invention of Edo Carol Gluck
18. Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition /Modernity Binary
Dipesh Chakrabarty
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
1. Tradition: Past/Present Culture and Modern Japanese History
Stephen Vlastos
PART ONE • HARMONY
2. The Invention of Japanese-Style Labor Management
Andrew Gordon
3. The Invention of Wa and the Transformation of the Image
of Prince Shotoku in Modern Japan
Ito Kimio
4. Weak Legal Consciousness as Invented Tradition Frank K Upham
PART TWO • VILLAGE
5. The Japanese Village: Imagined, Real, Contested Irwin ScheMer
6. Agrarianism Without Tradition: The Radical Critique of Prewar Japanese Modernity Stephen Vlastos
7. Colonizing Manchuria: The Making of an Imperial Myth Louise Young
8. It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan Jennifer Robertson
PART THREE • FOLK
9. Chiho: Yanagita Kunio's lapan"
Hashimoto Mitsuru
to. Figuring the Folk: History, Poetics, and Representation
H. D. Harootunian
PART FOUR • SPORTS
The Invention of the Martial Arts: Kano Jigoro and Kodokan Judo Inoue Shun
12. The Invention of the Yokozuna and the Championship System, Or, Futahaguro's Revenge
Lee A. Thompson
PART FIVE • GENDER
13. At Home in the Meiji Period: Inventing Japanese Domesticity Jordan Sand
14. The Cafe Waitress Serving Modern Japan Miriam Silverberg
PART SIX • HISTORY
15. Constructing Shinano: The Invention of a Neo-Traditional Region Karen Wigen
16. "Doubly Cruel": Marxism and the Presence of the Past in Japanese Capitalism Andrew E. Barshay
17. The Invention of Edo Carol Gluck
18. Afterword: Revisiting the Tradition /Modernity Binary
Dipesh Chakrabarty
GLOSSARY
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX