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Consuming ethnicity and nationalism : Asian experiences.
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ISBN: 0824822471 082482248X 0700711899 Year: 1999 Publisher: Richmond Curzon

Everyday things in premodern Japan : the hidden legacy of material culture.
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ISBN: 0520204700 0520218124 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley University of California press

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Japan was the only non-Western nation to industrialize before 1900 and its leap into the modern era has stimulated vigorous debates among historians and social scientists. In an innovative discussion that posits the importance of physical well-being as a key indicator of living standards, Susan B. Hanley considers daily life in the three centuries leading up to the modern era in Japan. She concludes that people lived much better than has been previously understood--at levels equal or superior to their Western contemporaries. She goes on to illustrate how this high level of physical well-being had important consequences for Japan's ability to industrialize rapidly and for the comparatively smooth transition to a modern, industrial society. While others have used income levels to conclude that the Japanese household was relatively poor in those centuries, Hanley examines the material culture--food, sanitation, housing, and transportation. How did ordinary people conserve the limited resources available in this small island country? What foods made up the daily diet and how were they prepared? How were human wastes disposed of? How long did people live? Hanley answers all these questions and more in an accessible style and with frequent comparisons with Western lifestyles. Her methods allow for cross-cultural comparisons between Japan and the West as well as Japan and the rest of Asia. They will be useful to anyone interested in the effects of modernization on daily life.

Cartographies of desire : male-male sexuality in Japanese discourse, 1600-1950
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ISBN: 0520209095 Year: 1999 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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In this sweeping study of the mapping and remapping of male-male sexuality over four centuries of Japanese history, Gregory Pflugfelder explores the languages of medicine, law, and popular culture from the seventeenth century through the American Occupation. Pflugfelder opens with fascinating speculations about how an Edo translator might grapple with a twentieth-century text on homosexuality, then turns to law, literature, newspaper articles, medical tracts, and other sources to discover Japanese attitudes toward sexuality over the centuries. During each of three major eras, he argues, one field dominated discourse on male-male sexual relations: popular culture in the Edo period (1600-1868), jurisprudence in the Meiji period (1868-1912), and medicine in the twentieth century. This multidisciplinary and theoretically engaged analysis will interest not only students and scholars of Japan but also readers of gay studies, literary studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.

Misère et crime au Japon du XVIIe siècle à nos jours
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ISBN: 2070749460 9782070749461 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris Gallimard

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The rise of the feminist movement in Japan.
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ISBN: 4766407318 Year: 1999 Publisher: Tokyo Keio university press

Themes and issues in Asian cartooning : cute, cheap, mad, and sexy.
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ISBN: 0879727802 0879727799 Year: 1999 Publisher: Bowling Green Bowling Green State University Popular Press

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