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Japan's Modern Myths : Ideology in the Late Meiji Period /

Gluck, Carol

Japan's Modern Myths : Ideology in the Late Meiji Period / Carol Gluck. - 1 online resource (424 p.) - Studies of the East Asian Institute ; 1 .

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- I. IDEOLOGY AND IMPERIAL JAPAN -- II. THE LATE MEIJI PERIOD -- III. THE BODY POLITIC -- IV. THE MODERN MONARCH -- V. CIVIL MORALITY -- VI. SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS -- VII. END OF AN ERA -- VIII. THE LANGUAGE OF IDEOLOGY -- IX. EPILOGUE: IDEOLOGY AND MODERN JAPAN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX

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Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

9780691232676

10.1515/9780691232676 doi

2021701063


Ideology.
HISTORY / Asia / Japan.

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DS881.95