Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930

by Sharon A. Minichiello

Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "modernist"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824820800
• ISBN13: 9780824820800
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 8.9"