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A genealogy of 'Japanese' self-images
Tan'itsu minzoku shinwa no kigen. English
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Eiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific War, but only after the end of World War II. Oguma also examines how ...
Eiji Oguma demonstrates that the myth of ethnic homogeneity was not established during the Meiji period, nor during the Pacific War, but only after the end of World War II. Oguma also examines how the peoples of the Japanese colonies were viewed in prewarliterature on ethnic identity.
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- Eiji Oguma ; translated by David Askew
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- English
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- English ed
- Melbourne : Trans Pacific Press ; Portland, Or. : Distributor, International Specialized Book Services, 2002
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- xxxvi, 435 pages : map ; 22 cm
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- 1876843837, 9781876843830, 1876843047, 9781876843045
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- ocm49832735
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-427) and index.
- The Thought of an 'Open Country' -- The Birth of Theories of the Japanese Nation -- The Debate on Mixed Residence in the Interior -- The Theory of the National Polity and Japanese Christianity -- The Anthropologists -- The Theory that the 'Japanese' and Koreans share a Common Ancestor -- The Japanese Annexation of Korea -- The Thought of 'Empire' -- History and the 'Abolition of Discrimination' -- The Reformation of the National Polity Theory -- National Self-Determination and National Borders -- The Japanese as Caucasians -- 'The Return to Blood' -- The Thought of an 'Island Nation' -- The Birth of an Island Nation's Folklore -- Japanisation versus Eugenics -- The Revival of the Kiki Myths -- From 'Blood' to 'Climate' -- The Collapse of Empire -- The Myth Takes Root