Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan

by Susan L. Burns, Madge Huntington, Masao Miyoshi, et al.

Book Overview

Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination of the late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country." Departing from earlier studies of kokugaku that focused on intellectuals whose work has been valorized by modern scholars, Burns seeks to recover the multiple ways "Japan" as social and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822331721
• ISBN13: 9780822331728
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"