Japanese Cultural Nationalism

At Home and in the Asia-Pacific
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-901903-11-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Based on the premise that Japanese cultural nationalism has been and is a major cultural/historical force throughout the Asia Pacific this book has dual focus: Part 1 explores Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomacy, music; Part 2 extends Japanese role to Asia Pacific at large. Part One explores significant and influential expressions of cultural nationalism in Japanese literature, philosophy, education, politics, diplomacy, music and popular culture. Part Two widens the focus to Asia Pacific at large and examines the role of Japanese cultural nationalist discourse in the island nation's relations with its regional neighbours, China being the main focus. Topics include Meiji racial theory, the varieties of Japanese imperialist ideology, nationalist attitudes towards China, Kyoto School Sinology, resistance to foreign yakozuna in sumo wrestling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Starrs, Roy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART ONE: JAPANESE CULTURAL NATIONALISM AT HOME; 1. National Poetics and National Identity; 2. The Domestic and the Foreign in Heian Literature; 3. Tsuda Umeko and Meiji Cultural Nationalism Discourse; 4. Nitobe Inazo and Japanese Nationalism; 5. Nishida Kitaro and Nationalism; 6. Nation and Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu; 7. The Legacy of Shiba Ryotaro; 8. Cultural Nationalism in Japanese Language Textbooks; 9. The Koto, Traditional Music, and an Idealized Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Music Performance and Education; 10. The Beauty of Personal Sorrow in War: Kike wadatsumi no koe; PART TWO: JAPANESE CULTURAL NATIONALISM IN AN ASIA-PACIFIC CONTEXT; 11. Race-ing Japan; 12. Shiga Shigetaka (1863–1927) and New Zealand as a Model for Japan; 13. Japanese Nationalism and China’s Independence:Yamaji Aizan 1865–1917; 14. Envisioning a Liberal Empire: A Dialectical Imagination between Cultural Nationalism and Cultural Internationalism in Modern Japan, 1905–1919; 15. Dunhuangology as Nationalist Apparatus: The Kyoto School of Oriental Studies and its Connections with Modern Chinese Historiography; 16. The Japanese Occupation of Micronesia in the Context of Imperialism; 17. Wrestling with Foreign Yokozuna; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Roy Starrs holds a PhD in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver) and has taught there as well as at Union College (New York) and Aarhus University (Denmark). He is currently Head of Japanese and Asian Studies at the University of Otago (New Zealand). As a researcher he has spent many years in Japan, including time as a Japan Foundation fellow in 1994/5 and 2000/1. His books include Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima; An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya; Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Yasunari Kawabata. He has also edited a number of books including Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization.