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Author Anderson, Mark, Ph. D.

Title Japan and the specter of imperialism / Mark Anderson
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 254 pages)
Contents Introduction: The Ansei treaties and the specter of imperialism -- John Luther Long's Madame Butterfly and imperial domesticity -- The science of making men : moral fitness for global competition -- Imperial aesthetics and the state in Meiji Japan -- Aesthetics and the moral capital of the family state -- Capitalist governmentality and melodramatic resistance in Ozaki Kôyô's Konjiki yasha -- Haga Yaichi's institution of classical Japanese literature : national community, governmentality, and colonial domesticity
Summary Japan and the Specter of Imperialism examines competing Japanese responses to the late nineteenth century unequal treaty regime as a confrontation with liberal imperialism, including the culture and gender politics of U.S. territorial expansion into the Pacific. The book examines how both the unequal treaties and Japanese legal reform served to impose and then incorporate the logic of market capitalism within a distinctly Japanese social order. It reveals that competing concepts of domesticity in figured centrally in naturalizing capitalism in Japan and rationalizing Japan's own expansion. The unequal treaty regime is situated as a precursor of contemporary neoliberal practices such as economic development zones and U.S. status of forces agreements
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
SUBJECT Ungleiche Verträge gnd
Subject Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History
Families -- Japan -- History
Japanese literature -- 1868- -- History and criticism
Imperialism in literature.
Political ideologies.
Central government.
Diplomacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Politics and Government.
Capitalism -- Social aspects
Diplomatic relations
Families
Imperialism in literature
Imperialism -- Social aspects
Japanese literature
Literature
Politics and government
Social conditions
Nationenbildung
Nationalbewusstsein
Literatur
Imperialismus
Kapitalismus
Internationalisierung
SUBJECT Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069421
Japan -- Commercial treaties
Japan -- Politics and government -- 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069549
Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868-1912. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00006987
Japan -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069589
Subject Japan
Japan
Genre/Form Commercial treaties
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009002625
ISBN 9780230100985
0230100988
1282664697
9781282664692
9781349381852
1349381853
9786612664694
661266469X