The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is a collection of short
biographies of ordinary Japanese men and women, most of them unknown
outside their family and locality, whose lives collectively span the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Their stories present a
counterweight to the prevailing stereotypes, providing students with
depictions of real people through the records they have left-records
that detail experiences and aspirations. The Human Tradition in Modern
Japan offers a human-scale perspective that focuses on individuals,
reconstitutes the meaning of people's experiences as they lived
through them, and puts a human face on history. It skillfully bridges
the divides between the sexes, between the local and the national, and
between rural and urban, as well as spanning crucial moments in the
history of modern Japan.The Human Tradition in Modern Japan is an
excellent resource for courses on Japanese history, East Asian
history, and peoples and cultures of Japan.
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ISBN
9781461665519
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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