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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Volume 67 Issue 3. SUSAN L. BURNS

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. BURNS: English Français. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. BURNS: Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society. x, 282 pp. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2003.

Before the Nation book. Burns analyzes the modern reassessments of nativism, concluding that there is a gap between the cultural community preached in the Tokugawa Era and the national community constructed in the Meiji Era. The answers I desired from this book begin to unravel in the final chapter, where we can truly see the effects of nativist studies on the public and in policy. Los Angeles: UCLA Asia Pacific Monograph Series, 2002. Constructing the National Body: Public Health and the Nation in Meiji Japan.

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 . 1 Late Tokugawa Society and the Crisis of Community. 16. The Divine Age Narrative in Tokugawa Japan.

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 cultural identity began to be imagined before modernity. Central to Burns's analysis is Motoori Norinaga’s Kojikiden, arguably the most important intellectual work of Japan's early modern period. Burns situates the Kojikiden as one in a series of attempts to analyze and interpret the mythohistories dating from the early eighth century, the Kojiki and Nihon shoki. 35. Discovering Japan.

"Before the Nation" is a significant addition to the field of Japanese intellectual history and a very fine book. -Leslie Pincus, author of "Authenticating Culture in Imperial Japan: Kuki Shuzo and the Rise of National Aesthetics". We are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at. . Duke University Press Books.

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of "nation. 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 ury intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.

writings, preferring the term 'Japan as community. Abruptly, in the last three pages of the book, she switches, borrowing from Prasenjit Duara to adopt the term 'culturalism. It might have been better to do this earlier, if ‘culturalism’ is indeed a better term. After useful introductory chapters on the intellectual, political and social crises of late Tokugawa Japan, and on earlier Tokugawa understandings of the Kojiki, Burns begins with the prominent figure of Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801), author of the Kojikiden, an annotated version of the Kojiki that began to circulate in 1780, becoming 'a consistent point of.

Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. 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 cultural identity began to be imagined before modernity. Central to Burns's analysis is Motoori Norinaga’s Kojikiden,.

Late Tokugawa society and the crisis of community - Before the Kojikiden : the divine age narrative in Tokugawa Japan - Motoori Norinaga . Duke University Press (2003). Similar books and articles

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Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture . Harootunian treats nativism as a discourse and shows how it functioned ideologically in Tokugawa Japan.

Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan (Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society). Tokugawa Ideology: Early Constructs, 1570-1680 (Michigan Classics in Japanese Studies). Harry Harootunian is the Max Palevsky Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Chicago and an adjunct senior scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.