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A Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English
Provides an invaluable and very accessible addition to existing biographic sources and references, not least because of the supporting biographies of major writers and the historical and cultural notes provided.
In the Company of Men
In the Company of Men examines representations of male-male sexuality in literature from the Meiji period, when Japan launched an unprecedented modernization campaign.
Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan
This volume explores the changing process of evaluating objects during the period of Japan’s rapid modernization. Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically kept separate, and elucidates the intellectual continuities between these eras. Focusing on the top-down effects of the professionalizing of academia in the political landscape of Meiji Japan, which had advanced by attacking earlier modes of scholarship by antiquarians, Suzuki shows how those outside the government responded, retracted, or challenged new public rules and values. He ex...
The Making of Urban Japan
This is the first book to comprehensively examine the phenomenon of Japanese city planning. Japan is one of the world's most urbanized countries, with its own traditions of urban management that are remarkably little known in the rest of the world.
Histories of Philosophy and Thought in the Japanese Language
Dieses bibliographische Handbuch gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichtsschreibung der Philosophie und des Denkens in japanischer Sprache anhand einer umfangreichen und thematisch geordneten Sammlung einschlägiger Literatur. Mit über tausend Einträgen zeigt die Bibliographie nicht nur, wie umfangreich und komplex die japanische Tradition der Philosophie- und Geistesgeschichtsschreibung ist, sondern auch, wie sie strukturiert und analysiert werden kann, um sie einem vergleichenden und interkulturellen Ansatz für die Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung weltweit zugänglich zu machen. Die Literatur ist nach thematischen Schwerpunkten wie geografischen Regionen und Kontinenten, Na...
Spaces in Translation
In Spaces in Translation, Christian Tagsold explores Japanese gardens in the West and ponders their history, the reasons for their popularity, and their connections to geopolitical events. He concludes that a process of cultural translation between Japanese and Western experts created an idea of the Orient and its distinction from the West.
A Buried Past
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.
