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Tag Archives: meiji
Book Announcement: Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan
Church Space and the Capital in Prewar Japan Garrett L. Washington Christians have never even constituted one percent of Japan’s population, yet Christianity had a disproportionately large influence on Japan’s social, intellectual, and political development. This happened despite the Tokugawa … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, church, government, history, Japan, Japanese history, Japanese society, meiji, politics, prewar, prewar Japan, religious studies
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Book Announcement: The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan
The Meiji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan Toshio Watanabe; Translated by Robert D. Eldridge The Meji Japanese Who Made Modern Taiwan describes the story of Japan’s involvement and administration of Taiwan in the pre-war era, with a focus on the period … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, empire, meiji, Meiji Japan, modern, modern Japan, Taiwan
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Book Announcement: The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity
The Visual Culture of Meiji Japan: Negotiating the Transition to Modernity Edited By Ayelet Zohar, Alison J. Miller This volume examines the visual culture of Japan’s transition to modernity, from 1868 to the first decades of the twentieth century. Through … Continue reading
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Tagged art history, book announcement, books, history, meiji, Meiji Japan, modern Japan, modernity, visual culture
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Book Announcement: Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire: The Writings of William Elliot Griffis
Interpreting the Mikado’s Empire:The Writings of William Elliot GriffisEDITED BY JOSEPH M. HENNING For more than fifty years, William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928) chronicled a rapidly changing Meiji Japan and its people. He was unequaled in the length of his writing … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, Japan, Japanese history, meiji, Meiji Japan, Meiji period, modern, modern Japan, Tokyo, travel writing
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Book Announcement: Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
Licentious Fictions:Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese NovelDaniel Poch Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to … Continue reading
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Tagged Ansei Edo earthquake, Edo, Edo Japan, fiction, Japan, Japanese literature, meiji, Meiji Japan, novel, novels
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Resource: Metadatabase of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Nagasaki University Library maintains a collection of Japanese photographs from the Bakumatsu (1853 and 1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods that represent some of the earliest photographs of Japan as it transitioned from the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji state. Holding … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Bakumatsu, Bakumatsu period, culture, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese photography, meiji, Meiji period, photography, travel
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Book Announcement: The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912)
The Turn Against the Modern: The Critical Essays of Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) Ronald P. Loftus The Turn Against the Modern is a biography of the late Meiji social and cultural critic Taoka Reiun (1870–1912) who was known for his fierce attack … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, book announcement, books, meiji, Meiji history, Meiji Japan, modern, modern Japan, modernity
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Book Announcement: Modern Buddhism in Japan
Modern Buddhism in Japan edited by Hayashi Makoto, Otani Eiichi, and Paul L. Swanson. Published by Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, 2014 (224 pp). This is a collection of essays on the development of Buddhism in Japan in response … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Buddhism, essay collection, essays, Japan, meiji, modern, modern Buddhism, modern Japan, religion
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Fun Link Friday: Meiji Meth: the Deep History of Illicit Drugs
When Breaking Bad was in its full (and justified) hype, a colleague of mine over at Nursing Clio sent me this link about the invention of meth in Meiji Japan, a factoid of which I was totally unaware. Want to find out … Continue reading
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Tagged Breaking Bad, chemistry, drugs, fun link friday, history, Japan, meiji, Meiji period, meth, science
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Book Announcement: The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia
The Challenge of Linear Time: Nationhood and the Politics of History in East Asia Edited by: Viren Murthy, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Axel Schneider, University of Goettingen (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2013) 302 pp ISBN13: 9789004260139 E-ISBN: 9789004260146 The papers … Continue reading
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Tagged books, China, east asia, East Asian History, Japan, meiji, nationhood, time
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 