Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Japan: A Sociological EnquiryRoutledge, 18/10/2005 - 284 من الصفحات The debate about Japan's 'uniqueness' is central to Japanese studies. This book aims to illuminate that debate from a comparative and theoretical perspective. It also tests theories of ethnicity and cultural nationalism through the use of Japan as a case study. |
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... symbols and practices that had surrounded pre-war and wartime nationalism in japan. The chapter compares and contrasts 'prudent revivalist nationalism' and 'resurgent cultural nationalism', that type associated with the nihonjinron and ...
... symbol of the Japanese ethos. Later in early modern Japan, novelist TanizakiJunichiro ([1934] 1974-) reiterated a similar point in his Buns/16 Dokuhon (Manual of Prose Composition). The objective, rational and verbal discourse of ...
... symbol —- language — comes to refer to a specific object and to have a precise meaning. This is not the case with cooperation in food gathering and agriculture. Language formed under these conditions is intended to exchange the feelings ...
... symbol, is useful here (Wallman 1981: 121). 'japanese blood' is not merely a sign or the abstraction of the object it stands for - since it is an imaginary notion it does not stand for any object, anyway — but a symbol which 'stands for ...
... symbol of 'Japanese blood' generates, and is generated by, an image that 'we' are members of the extended family that has perpetuated its lineage. Furthermore, the notion of 'Japanese blood' assumes the existence of distinct racial ...
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comparative perspectives | 39 |
a critical review | 68 |
the holistic tradition in theories of modem Japan | 87 |
Chapter 6 Perceptions of Japanese uniqueness among educators and businessmen | 104 |
the response of educators and businessmen to the nihonjinron | 133 |
Chapter 8 Leading business elites nationalism and cultural nationalism | 158 |
Chapter 9 Explanations of the nihonjinron | 185 |
Chapter 10 Resurgent cultural nationalism and prudent revivalist nationalism | 203 |
Notes | 227 |
Bibliography | 247 |
Index | 263 |