Format:
Online-Ressource (237 p.)
ISBN:
9780691128016
Content:
New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. This set off a cascade of changes that completely reconfigured how humans interacted with each other and with their environment--a process whose analysis carries implications for other non-Western s
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Contents; Acknowledgments; PRELUDE: Time, Pasts, History; CHAPTER 1. Discovery of Pasts; CHAPTER 2. "Nothing Is the Way It Should Be"; CHAPTER 3. Naturalization of Nation: Essential Time; CHAPTER 4. Naturalization of Nation: Chronological Time; CHAPTER 5. Socialization of Society; CHAPTER 6. Socialization of Nature: Museumification; Epilogue; Works Cited; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400826247
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691128016
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe New Times in Modern Japan
Language:
English
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