Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

Japan's Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period
ISBN-10
0691008124
ISBN-13
9780691008127
Category
History
Pages
432
Language
English
Published
1985
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Author
Carol Gluck

Description

Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed. By immersing the reader in the talk and thought of the late Meiji period, Professor Gluck recreates the diversity of ideological discourse experienced by Japanese of the time. The result is a new interpretation of the views of politics and the nation in imperial Japan.

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