LEADER 03899nam 2200649Ia 450 001 996211817703316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-12957-0 010 $a9786612129575 010 $a1-4008-2624-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826247 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756244 035 $a(EBL)445554 035 $a(OCoLC)369298945 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000210853 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11198371 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000210853 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291302 035 $a(PQKB)10295695 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36234 035 $a(DE-B1597)446492 035 $a(OCoLC)979881543 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826247 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445554 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284122 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445554 035 $a(PPN)187309361 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756244 100 $a20031003d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNew times in modern Japan$b[electronic resource] /$fStefan Tanaka 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11774-8 311 $a0-691-12801-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [203]-217) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPrelude -- $tChapter 1. Discovery of Pasts -- $tChapter 2. "Nothing Is the Way It Should Be" -- $tChapter 3. Naturalization of Nation: Essential Time -- $tChapter 4. Naturalization of Nation: Chronological Time -- $tChapter 5. Socialization of Society -- $tChapter 6. Socialization of Nature: Museumification -- $tEpilogue -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aNew Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. This set off a cascade of changes that completely reconfigured how humans interacted with each other and with their environment--a process whose analysis carries implications for other non-Western societies as well. By examining topics ranging from geology, ghosts, childhood, art history, and architecture to nature as a whole, Stefan Tanaka explores how changing conceptions of time destabilized inherited knowledge and practices and ultimately facilitated the reconfiguration of the archipelago's heterogeneous communities into the liberal-capitalist nation-state, Japan. However, this revolutionary transformation--where, in the words of Lewis Mumford, "the clock, not the steam engine," is the key mechanism of the industrial age--has received little more than a footnote in the history of Japan. This book's innovative focus on time not only shifts attention away from debates about the failure (or success) of "modernization" toward how individuals interact with the overlay of abstract concepts upon their lives; it also illuminates the roles of history as discourse and as practice in this reconfiguration of society. In doing so, it will influence discussions about modernity well beyond the borders of Japan. 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Japan$2bisacsh 607 $aJapan$xHistory$yMeiji period, 1868-1912 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Japan. 676 $a952.03/1 700 $aTanaka$b Stefan$0644595 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996211817703316 996 $aNew times in modern Japan$91241309 997 $aUNISA