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"Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with pu...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives,
volume 13 |
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| Summary: |
"Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early modern era, case studies examine peripheral living spaces, boyhood, and self-interrogation in the arts. For the modern period, they explore strategic deviance, individuality in Meiji education, modern leisure, and body-maintenance. Analysis of these disparate private realms illuminates evolving conceptualizations of the private and its reciprocal yet often-contested relationship to the state"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xix, 364 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-344) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004447547 9004447547 |
| Index Number: | DS821 |
| CLC: | K313.03 |
| Call Number: | K313.03/B829 |