The British Stake In Japanese Modernity: Readings in Liberal Tradition and Native Modernism

by Michael Gardiner

Book Overview

This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan's modernity was bound up with a convergence with British Newtonian cosmology,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032089113
• ISBN13: 9781032089119
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"