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Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan - The Dictionary of Sources of Classical Japan is a trilingual--English, French, and Japanese--dictionary of texts from pre-modern Japanese history and literature. Compiled under the auspices of the Historiographical Institute, the University of Tokyo (Shiryō hensan-jo), it consists of entries written and edited by some of the foremost scholars of pre-modern Japanese history and literature in the ...
Modern and Contemporary Art in Iran - A cursory glance at the history of art reveals the social, political and economic conditions have always played a major role in the emergence of new artistic currents and styles. In Iran, the social and political developments of the 1940s radically altered the evolution of this country’s plastic arts and entirely ...
Crime in Japan - Despite Japan's status as a modern, industrialized nation—a condition linked by many criminologists to growing rates of crime—the nation does not suffer from steadily rising levels of criminal activity. Although crime continues to be higher in urban areas, rates of crime remain relatively constant nationwide, ...
James L. Gelvin - James Gelvin is a scholar of Middle Eastern history. He has been a faculty member in the department of history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) since 1995 and has written extensively on the history of the modern Middle East, with particular emphasis on nationalism and the social and cultural history of the modern Middle East.
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...A complete blueprint of political manipulation indicating what happened and how modern Japan was, in several senses, created. For personal use only. But the true ingenuity and value of Gordon`s approach lies in his close attention to the present. Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Most importantly, it illuminates the interconnectedness of Japanese history. The book examines Japan`s struggles to define the meaning of its modernization, from villages and urban neighborhoods, to factory floors and middle managers` offices, to the non-elite layers of society. This introductory text presents an extremely clear and well-written account of the Tokugawa family--through the modernizing revolution launched by midlevel samurai in the late nineteenth century; the adoption of Western hairstyles, clothing, and military organization; and the nation`s first experiments with mass democracy after World War II, the American occupation, and the subsequent economic rollercoaster. -- Donald Richie, The Japan Times Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese state through displays of Imperial power and pageantry....A complete blueprint of political manipulation indicating what happened and how modern Japan was, in several senses, created. For personal use only. For personal use only. For personal use only. For personal use only. But the true ingenuity and value of Gordon`s approach lies in his close attention to the present. Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Most importantly, it illuminates the interconnectedness of Japanese history. The book examines Japan`s struggles to define the meaning of its modernization, from villages and urban neighborhoods, to factory floors and middle managers`
