Japan : history and culture from classical to cool /
Aesthetics and tradition occupy a central role in modern Japanese national identity to a degree seemingly unparalleled among the world's wealthiest nations. This text surveys highlights in Japanese history, culture and society from prehistoric to contemporary times, devoting significant attenti...
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Berkeley :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Early Japan
- Forging a centralized state (550-794)
- The rule of taste : lives of Heian aristocrats (794-1185)
- The rise and rule of the warrior class (12th-15th centuries)
- Disintegration and reunification (1460s-early 1600s)
- Maintaining control : Tokugawa official culture (1603-1850s)
- Edo popular culture : the floating world (17th-19th centuries)
- Facing and embracing the West (1850s-1900s)
- Modernity and its discontents (1900s-1930s)
- Cultures of empire and war (1900s-1940s)
- Defeat and reconstruction (1945-1970s)
- "Cool" Japan as cultural superpower (1980s-2010s).