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On the Margins of Empire: Buraku and Korean Identity in Prewar and Wartime Japan
Jeffrey Paul Bayliss
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Hardback. Koreans and Burakumin, two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan, share a history of discrimination that spans the decades of Japan's modernization and imperial expansion. Bayliss explores the historical processes that cast them as "others" on the margins of the Japanese empire and that also influenced their views of themselves. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLW; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 34. Weight in Grams: 798.
Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan--Koreans, who emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and Burakumin, who descended from former outcastes--share a history of discrimination and marginalization that spans the decades of the nation's modern transformation, from the relatively liberal decade of the 1920s, through the militarism and nationalism of the 1930s, to the empire's demise in 1945. Through an analysis of the stereotypes of Koreans and Burakumin that were constructed in tandem with Japan's modernization and imperial expansion, Jeffrey Bayliss explores the historical processes that cast both groups as the antithesis of the emerging image ... Read more
Two of the largest minority groups in modern Japan--Koreans, who emigrated to the metropole as colonial subjects, and Burakumin, who descended from former outcastes--share a history of discrimination and marginalization that spans the decades of the nation's modern transformation, from the relatively liberal decade of the 1920s, through the militarism and nationalism of the 1930s, to the empire's demise in 1945. Through an analysis of the stereotypes of Koreans and Burakumin that were constructed in tandem with Japan's modernization and imperial expansion, Jeffrey Bayliss explores the historical processes that cast both groups as the antithesis of the emerging image ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
350
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Condition
New
Weight
798g
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674066687
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V9780674066687
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About Jeffrey Paul Bayliss
Jeffrey Paul Bayliss is Associate Professor of History at Trinity College.
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