Format:
1 Online-Ressource (199 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9789048550104
Series Statement:
Asian history
Content:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Occupation is not war -- I. Japan's culture and cultural institutions before the war -- Bridges with the United States -- More than 36 views of Mount Fuji -- Encounters with the West -- Cultural fruits and frictions of the Meiji Restoration: The Iwakura Embassy -- Indispensable friendships at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts -- Ernest Fenollosa - the Boston-Japan bridge -- Okakura Tenshin - Teacher and Mentor -- Culture, the foundational stone? -- II. Prerequisites for occupation -- Planning the U.S. post-war policies for Japan -- Building towards the Arts and Monuments Division -- Franklin D. Roosevelt's America and the New Dealers -- The American Defense-Harvard Group -- The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) -- The American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas (The Roberts Commission) -- The Civil Affairs Training Schools (CATS) -- III. 'Understanding Japan' -- The specialists -- Scholarship influencing policy and the bureaucracy? -- Joseph C. Grew - contested Dean of the 'Japan Crowd' -- George B. Sansom - supreme diplomat and supreme scholar -- Ruth Benedict - the enemy, too, is human -- Scholars and the Pacific War -- IV. The shape of an occupation -- A league unto its own -- SCAP, its leadership and structure -- Culture under the Occupation -- V. The arts and monuments division -- Culture within the Civil Information and Education (CIE) Section -- George L. Stout - Father of MFAA, Founder of A& -- M -- Langdon Warner - An idol returns -- Sherman E. Lee - How it all worked -- Expecting the worst, getting the best? -- VI. Conclusions -- Rethinking the 1950 Law for the Protection of Cultural Property -- Quo Vadis? -- Imaginable consequences -- Illustrations -- References -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Azimi, Nassrine, 1959 - The United States and cultural heritage protection in Japan (1945-1952) Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019 ISBN 9789463721325
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9463721320
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Japan
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USA
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Besatzungsmacht
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Kulturgüterschutz
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Japan
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USA Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
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Kulturgüterschutz
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Besatzungspolitik
URL:
http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
