Revisiting Japan's restoration : new approaches to the study of the Meiji transformation /: new approaches to the study of the Meiji transformation. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii.
• Editors: Amos, Timothy D, 1973-; Ishii, Akiko
• Contents: Introduction [Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, National University of Singapore] Part One: World 1. The Meiji Restoration and the Long Nineteenth Century [Mark Ravina, University of Texas at Austin, USA] 2. Local Labour and the Trajectory of the Meiji Restoration [Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University, USA] 3. Freedom, Slavery and the Meiji Restoration, Revisiting the Maria Luz Incident [Bill Mihalopoulos, University of Central Lancashire, UK] Part Two: Governance 4. The Meiji Restoration and Governmnetality [David Howell, Harvard University, USA] 5.Rulings on Tokagawa Status Infringements and Local Governing Practices in Early Meiji Osaka Court Records [Timothy D. Amos, National University of Singapore] Part Three: Asia 6. From Boy Emperors to Business Opportunities: Glimpses of the Meiji Restoration from the China Coast Press c1868-70 [Donna Brunero, National University of Singapore] 7. Reformists and Revolutionaries: Filipinos View Meiji Japan, 1880s-2000s [Ricardo Jose, University of the Philippines (Diliman)] 8. Ealy 20th Century Vietnamese Intellectuals’ Perceptions of the Meiji Restoration and its Lessons for Manpower Cultivation [Phan Hai Linh, Vietnam National University] Part Four: Ideas 9. Questioning Modernity: A Historiographical Sketch of the Meiji Enlightenment [Akiko Ishii, National University of Singapore] 10. The “Meiji Restoration as Ideal and Failure: The Spectre of a Second Innovation [Ben Middleton, Ferris University, Japan] Part Five: Nation-Empire 11. Meiji and the Bonin Islands: Ambiguous Bodies and Ambivalent Borders [David Chapman, University of Queensland, Australia] 12. Reconstructing State-Formation and Empire-Building in Meiji Japan [Tristan R. Grunow, Pacific University, USA] Part Six: Culture 13. Inventing Ise in Meiji Japan [John Breen, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan] 14. Haikai Time in Meiji Japan [Scot Hislop, National University of Singapore] 15. Tokugawa v. Meiji: A Nocturnal Interpretation [Laura Nenzi, University of Tennessee, USA] Part Seven: Medicine and Health 16. Blood, Bandages, and Bickering: Doctors in the Boshin War [Ellen Nakamura, University of Auckland, New Zealand] 17. Toward Creating New Mind, New Body: Yojo as a Late Meiji Ideology [Sookyeong Hong, Tsuda University, Japan] Part Seven: Gender and Status 18. The Meiji Restoration as Social History: With a Focus on Tokyo [Yuriko Yokoyama, National Museum of Japanese History, Japan] 19. Cattle Plague, Livestock Disposal, and the Dismantling of the Early Modern Status Order [John P. Porter, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan] 20. Kaihōrei kara Suihei Sengen e -- From Emancipation by the State to Liberation by Our Own Efforts [Ian Neary, University of Oxford, UK] Part Eight: Production and Consumption 21. From Ramune to Ryokucha: Continuities and Discontinuities in Japanese Beverage Consumption [Rebecca Suter, University of Sydney, Australia] 22. Post-Restoration Transformations and Merchant Guilds: The Oil Seed Merchants of Osaka [Mio Shimazaki, Osaka Museum of History, Japan] Part Nine: Region and Locality 23. The Meiji Restoration and Local History: Reflections Based on Osaka’s Izumi Region [Takashi Tsukuda, Osaka City University, Japan] 24. Traditional Culture and Modern Administration: The Meiji Government’s Hot Spring Policy and Local Community [Yoichi Takahashi, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University, Japan] 25. Whose Restoration? Observations from a Study of the Kagoshima Teacher Training School, 1875-1877 [Robert Crawford, National University of Singapore] Part Ten: Urban Space 26. The World of the Pleasure Quarters in the Transitional Period from Early Modern to Modern Japan: Research on the Yokohama Pleasure Quarters [Ashita Saga, Osaka City University, Japan] 27. Changes in the Regulation of Unlicensed Prostitutes in the Ansei Period (1854-1860) and “Horie-Shinchi” [Kanami Yoshimoto, Kyoto Seika University, Japan] Part Eleven: Modernity 28. The Words of Modernity before Modernity [Olivier Ansart, University of Sydney, Australia] 29.The Background of Japan’s Modernization: What made the Meiji Restoration Possible? [Hiroshi Kurushima, Chiba University, Japan] Part Twelve: Politics 30. February 11, 1889: The Birth of Modern Japan [Lionel Babicz, University of Sydney, Australia] 31. From Shogunal Benevolence to Monarchial Compassion: The Shifting Status of “Voices from the Bottom” in the Meiji Restoration [Yoshihiro Yamasaki, Tokyo Future University, Japan]
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 952.031; Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870; Japan -- History -- Restoration, 1853-1870 -- Historiography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000508185; 9781000508178; 9781003207771
• Related ISBNs: 9781032075839; 9781032075785
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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