Japan's Modern Myths
eBook - PDF

Japan's Modern Myths

Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

  1. 424 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Japan's Modern Myths

Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication page
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Illustration
  8. I. Ideology and Imperial Japan
  9. II. The Late Meiji Period
  10. III. The Body Politic
  11. IV. The Modern Monarch
  12. V. Civil Morality
  13. VI. Social Foundations
  14. VII. End Of An Era
  15. VIII. The Language Of Ideology
  16. IX. Epilogue: Ideology And Modern Japan
  17. Bibliography
  18. Notes
  19. Index