Japan and the Specter of Imperialism

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-61922-7
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Japan and the Specter of Imperialism examines competing Japanese responses to the late nineteenth century unequal treaty regime as a confrontation with liberal imperialism, including the culture and gender politics of US territorial expansion into the Pacific.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction The Ansei Treaties and the Specter of Imperialism John Luther Long's Madame Butterfly and Imperial Domesticity The Science of Making Men: Moral Fitness for Global Competition Imperial Aesthetics and the State in Meiji Japan Aesthetics and the Moral Capital of the Family State Liberal Governmentality and Melodramatic Resistance in Ozaki Koyo's Konjiki yasha Haga Yaichi's Institution of Classical Japanese Literature: National Community, Governmentality, and Colonial Domesticity

Über Autor(innen)

MARK ANDERSON is Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA.