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Record Nr.

UNISA996248323703316

Autore

Tanaka Stefan

Titolo

Japan's orient - rendering pasts into history

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified], : University of California Press, 1995

ISBN

0-520-91668-9

0-585-10833-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 305 p. ) : ill.

Soggetti

East Asia

Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East

History & Archaeology

Japan Historiography

Japan Civilization Chinese influences

China Study and teaching Japan

China Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Discovery of History -- PART ONE Finding Equivalence -- PART TWO Creating Difference -- Epilogue: The Renovation of the Past -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts-Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese-to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.