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Japan in the World
Miyoshi
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Description for Japan in the World
Paperback. Editor(s): Miyoshi, Masao; Harootunian, Harry. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HPDF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 626.
Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan—despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market—is caught in a complex dependency with the United States. Drawing on critical and postmodernist theory, this timely volume situates this dependency in a broader historical context and assesses Japan's current dealings in international politics, society, and culture.
Among the many topics covered are: racism in U.S.-Japanese relations; productivity and workplace ... Read more
Since the end of World War II, Japan has determinately remained outside the current of world events and uninvolved in the processes determining global history and politics. In Japan and the World, distinguished scholars, novelists, and intellectuals articulate how Japan—despite unprecedented economic prowess in securing dominance in the world's market—is caught in a complex dependency with the United States. Drawing on critical and postmodernist theory, this timely volume situates this dependency in a broader historical context and assesses Japan's current dealings in international politics, society, and culture.
Among the many topics covered are: racism in U.S.-Japanese relations; productivity and workplace ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822313687
SKU
V9780822313687
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About Miyoshi
At the time of his death in 2009, Masao Miyoshi was Professor of Japanese, English, and Comparative Literature at the Univesity of California, San Diego. He is coeditor, with Fredric Jameson, of The Cultures of Globalization, also published by Duke University Press. H. D. Harootunian is Director of the Program in East Asian Studies at New York University.
Reviews for Japan in the World
"This is an impious book
every bit as irreverent as it is enlightening, and certainly the more entertaining for that fact... The essays that make up the volume set out to remove Japan from the cultural and geopolitical vacuum in which it paradoxically finds itself and position it instead within a truly global framework for critical analysis."
Edward Fowler, Journal of ... Read more
every bit as irreverent as it is enlightening, and certainly the more entertaining for that fact... The essays that make up the volume set out to remove Japan from the cultural and geopolitical vacuum in which it paradoxically finds itself and position it instead within a truly global framework for critical analysis."
Edward Fowler, Journal of ... Read more