Rethinking Identity in Modern Japan: Nationalism as Aesthetics

Rethinking Modernity and National Identi

📁 Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey

✍ Sibel Bozdogan, Resat Kasaba 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 University of Washington Press 🌐 English

In the first two decades after W.W.II, social scientist heralded Turkey as an exemplar of a 'modernizing' nation in the Western mold. Images of unveiled women working next to clean-shaven men, healthy children in school uniforms, and downtown Ankara's modern architecture all proclaimed the country's

Japan's National Identity and Foreign Po

📁 Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan's 'Other'

✍ Alexander Bukh 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book is the first attempt to examine Japan’s relations with Russia from the perspective of national identity; providing a new interpretation of Japan’s perceptions of Russia and foreign policy. Alexander Bukh focuses on the construction of the Japanese self using Russia as the other, examini

Japan's National Identity and Foreign Po

📁 Japan's National Identity and Foreign Policy: Russia as Japan's "Other"

✍ Alexander Bukh 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Routledge 🌐 English

This book is the first attempt to examine Japan’s relations with Russia from the perspective of national identity; providing a new interpretation of Japan’s perceptions of Russia and foreign policy. Alexander Bukh focuses on the construction of the Japanese self using Russia as the other, examini

The victim as hero : ideologies of peace

📁 The victim as hero : ideologies of peace and national identity in postwar Japan

✍ Orr, James Joseph 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 University of Hawai’i Press 🌐 English

The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace

📁 The Victim as Hero: Ideologies of Peace and National Identity in Postwar Japan

✍ James J. Orr 📂 Library 📅 2001 🏛 University of Hawaii Press 🌐 English

<p>This is the first systematic, historical inquiry into the emergence of "victim consciousness" <i>(higaisha ishiki)</i> as an essential component of Japanese pacifist national identity after World War II. In his meticulously crafted narrative and analysis, the author reveals how postwar Japanese e

Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern

📁 Aesthetic Life: Beauty and Art in Modern Japan

✍ Miya Elise Mizuta Lippit 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Harvard University Asia Center 🌐 English

This study of modern Japan engages the fields of art history, literature, and cultural studies, seeking to understand how the "beautiful woman" (bijin) emerged as a symbol of Japanese culture during the Meiji period (1868-1912). With origins in the formative period of modern Japanese art and aesthet