Author: Joseph PittauPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Political Thought in Early Meiji Japan
Author: Joseph PittauPolitical thought in early Meiji Japan, 1868-1889
Author: Joseph PittauThe Political Thought of Mori Arinori
Author: Alistair SwalePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134250975
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This new study of the Meiji Government's controversial Education Minister and thinker, Mori Arinori, seeks to complement Ivan P. Hall's excellent earlier biography (1973) by providing an alternative interpretation of the man and his mission, namely that he is 'overwhelmingly closer to the social evolutionist's view of social change', with a considerable debt to the writings of Spencer rather than the Utalitarian philosophy of J. S. Mill. In other words, Mori was able to develop a workable philosophy of government and administration in line with the pragmatic needs of Japanese society. The book, therefore, will contribute to a radical rethink of Japanese perceptions of the Meiji reforms seen in their own terms.
A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901
Author: 浩·渡辺Publisher:
ISBN: 9784924971325
Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
In 1853 a flotilla of U.S. Navy warships led by Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrived in Japan. A scant fourteen years later the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate, which had lasted two and a half centuries, was at an end. What lay behind the sudden collapse of samurai rule? Watanabe Hiroshi traces the quiet changes in political thought that culminated in the dramatic events of the Meiji Revolution in 1868. Confucian ideals such as a universal Way and benevolent government under a virtuous ruler possessing the mandate of heaven were taught by successive Japanese Confucians and came to permeate the country, posing an implicit threat to military rule. Over time the development of a national consciousness, the rising prestige of the imperial court in Kyoto, and increased knowledge of the Western world created the conditions for a national debate over opening up to the West and for radical political change.
Meiji Japan's Centennial: Aspects of Political Thought and Action
Author: David WurfelPublisher: Lawrence : University Press of Kansas
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Japan in Transition
Author: Hilary ConroyPublisher: Rutherford : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London : Associated University Presses
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
This collection of essays by distinguished scholars takes us into a critical and exceptionally interesting period in Japanese history. The fourteen essays explore the evolution of social and political thought and practice during this crucial period, the question of women's rights, the conflict between modernizers and zealots, Japan's political, military, and diplomatic relations with other countries, and other topics.
A Political History of Japan During the Meiji Era, 1867-1912
Author: Walter Wallace McLarenPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan
Author: Mara PatessioPublisher: U of M Center For Japanese Studies
ISBN: 192928067X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan focuses on women’s activities in the new public spaces of Meiji Japan. With chapters on public, private, and missionary schools for girls, their students, and teachers, on social and political groups women created, on female employment, and on women’s participation in print media, this book offers a new perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese history. Women’s founding of and participation in conflicting discourses over the value of women in Meiji public life demonstrate that during this period active and vocal women were everywhere, that they did not meekly submit to the dictates of the government and intellectuals over what women could or should do, and that they were fully integrated in the production of Meiji culture. Mara Patessio shows that the study of women is fundamental not only in order to understand fully the transformations of the Meiji period, but also to understand how later generations of women could successfully move the battle forward. Women and Public Life in Early Meiji Japan is essential reading for all students and teachers of 19th- and early 20th-century Japanese history and is of interest to scholars of women’s history more generally.
Rebellion and Democracy in Meiji Japan
Author: Roger W. BowenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520052307
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Political Thought in Japanese Historical Writing
Author: John S. BrownleePublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889208743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
It was only at the onset of the Tokugawa period (1602-1868) that formal political thought emerged in Japan. Prior to that time Japanese scholars had concentrated, rather, on questions of legitimacy and authority in historical writing., producing a stream of works. Brownlee’s illuminating study describes twenty of these important historical works commencing with Kojiki (712) and Nihon Shoki (720) and ending with Tokushi Yoron (1712) by Arai Hakuseki. Historical writing would cease to be the sole vehicle for political discussion in Japan in the eighteenth century as Chinese Confucian thought became dominant. The author illustrates how the first works conceptualized history as imperial history and that subsequent scholars were unable to devise alternative schemes or patterns for history until Arai Hakuseki. Following the first histories, the central concern became the question of the relation of the Emperors to the new powers that arose. Brownlee examines the genre of Historical Tales and how it treated the Fujiwara Regents, the War Tales dealing with warriors at large, and specific works of historical argument depicting the Bakufu in relation to the Emperors. By interposing the works of Gukanshø (1219) by Jien, Jinnø Shøtøki (1339) by Kitabatake Chikafusa and Tokushi Yoron by Arai Hakuseki a clear pattern, demonstrating the sequential development of complexity and sophistication in handling the question, is revealed. Japanese political thought thus developed independently towards rationalism and secularism in early modern times.