Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia

Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-80039-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

By challenging the reader to “unthink” what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study which discovers and reconstructs indigenous forms of knowledge and local practice related to material change. In doing so, the book illuminates the point where modern notions of development emerged and thus aids in the process of understanding how they achieved hegemonic status. This in turn expands the notion of what development can and should entail and provides valuable pathways for rethinking our relations with the social world and the environment.

This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian development, Asian history and environmental history.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ishii, Akiko

Amos, Timothy D.

Lim, Samson

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction  Unthinking Modernisation  Chapter 1: Between Stagnation and Development: Kumazawa Banzan’s Idea of Sustainability in Early Modern Japan  Chapter 2: Development and Modernity: The Case of the Sorai School  Chapter 3: Expertise that Travels: The Case of Japan and Vietnam in the Early Modern Period  Knowing Natures  Chapter 4: Changing Midstream: Water Conflicts and Local Knowledge in Pre-Meiji Osaka  Chapter 5: Development and Nature in the Qing Dynasty: A Case Study of the Fu River Coastal Area, Sichuan Province  Chapter 6: Fengshui Village Landscapes and Windbreak Forest Belts on the Ryukyu Archipelago: Rural Development of Small Islands  Emplotting Technologies  Chapter 7: Feudal Remnants? The Modern Afterlife of Japan’s Homegrown Iron Industry  Chapter 8: A Historical Reconstruction of the Changing Relationship Between Forests and People in Japan: A Case Study of Hirosaki Domain in the Nineteenth Century  Multiplying Progress  Chapter 9: Pillar of Tradition  Chapter 10: Two Foundational Fictions of Japanese National Literature  Chapter 11: Excrement and Development in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy D. Amos is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia.

Akiko Ishii is Lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore.

Samson Lim is Lecturer in the History Program at Monash University, Australia.