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Rethinking Japanese History: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, cartea 74

Autor Yoshihiko Amino Contribuţii de Hitomi Tonomura Traducere de Alan S. Christy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 ian 2012
In this fascinating journey across centuries, Amino Yoshihiko, the premier historian of medieval Japan, invites us to rethink everything we thought we knew about Japanese history. From reconsidering the roles of outcastes and outlaws, to the provenance of "Japan (Nihon)," to the very meaning of writing, Amino offers a powerful critique of the conventional wisdom about Japan's past. Instead of depicting Japan as an isolated island country full of immobile peasants dominated by swaggering warriors and an unbroken line of sacred emperors, he unveils a dynamic history of an archipelago driven by the competition to control trade and movement, in which warlords and aristocrats share the main stage with pirates, courtesans, beggars, and dancing monks.
Written for a nonspecialist audience and standing on a foundation of fifty years of research in a vast and eclectic range of primary sources, Rethinking Japanese History introduces the English reader to one of Japan's most original and provocative historians. Since the 1970s, Amino has inspired readers with his view of Japanese history "from the sea," in which the power politics of the samurai class were contrasted with the countervailing authorities of religious institutions, artisanal groups, and "lords of the sea" who enabled the movement of people and goods from the Asian continent to every harbor and village of Japan. In his portraits of an archaic and medieval past permeated with "places of freedom" and a grand struggle between ideologies of trade and agriculture, Amino challenged his contemporaries to reconsider not only their understanding of Japan's past, but also its present and future. Rethinking Japanese History calls on us to contemplate seriously the meaning of the deep past in our present day.
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ISBN-13: 9781929280711
ISBN-10: 1929280718
Pagini: 358
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.66 kg
Editura: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Colecția U of M Center For Japanese Studies
Seria Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies


Notă biografică

Alan S. Christy is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written and translated works on Japanese ethnography, Okinawa, and war memories.
Hitomi Tonomura is Professor of History and Women’s Studi

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A call to reconsider Japanese history from the perspective of the deep past