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

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

Paperback

Series: Studies of the East Asian Institute, Book 1

Japanese History

ISBN10: 0691008124
ISBN13: 9780691008127
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Apr 21 1987
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.04 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.23
Language: English

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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