Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)

Vlastos, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0520206371 / ISBN 13: 9780520206373

Published by University of California Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions of Modern Japan (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520206371
• ISBN 13: 9780520206373
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This collection of essays challenges the notion that Japan's present cultural identity is the simple legacy of Japan's premodern and insular past. Building on the pathbreaking historical analysis of British traditions, The Invention of Tradition, sixteen American and Japanese scholars examine "age-old" Japanese cultural practices, ranging from judo to labor management, and show these to be largely creations of the modern era.

About the Author

Stephen Vlastos is Professor of History at the University of Iowa, and author of Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan (California, 1986).