Japan's private spheres: autonomy in Japanese history, 1600-1930

"Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with pu...

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Main Author: Brecher, W. Puck 1965- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2021]
Series:The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives volume 13
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Summary:"Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with public authority, a dynamic that evokes stereotypes about an alleged dearth of individual agency in Japanese society. It does so through a montage of case studies. For the early modern era, case studies examine peripheral living spaces, boyhood, and self-interrogation in the arts. For the modern period, they explore strategic deviance, individuality in Meiji education, modern leisure, and body-maintenance. Analysis of these disparate private realms illuminates evolving conceptualizations of the private and its reciprocal yet often-contested relationship to the state."
Physical Description:XIX, 364 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten 25 cm
ISBN:9789004447547

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