Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan

by Mark McNally

Like No Other: Exceptionalism and Nativism in Early Modern Japan probes the association of the early modern Japanese intellectual institution called Kokugaku with the phenomenon of nativism. Uncovering profound differences that cast serious doubt on this association, Mark McNally argues that what Japanologists viewed as nativistic about Kokugaku were actually more typical of what Americanists call exceptionalism. By severing the link between Kokugaku...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824879295
• ISBN13: 9780824879297
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"