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Item Details
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MULTIETHNIC JAPAN
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| By: |
John Lie |
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Hardback |
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£27.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674002997 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674002999 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
15 January, 2001 |
| Pages: |
264 |
| Description: |
Challenging the perceived view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous, this volume employs a wide array of arguments and evidence - including the historical and the comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture - to recast modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society. |
| Synopsis: |
"Multiethnic Japan" challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence - historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture - John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society. Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), Chinese, Korean and Okinawans. In so doing, he depicts the trajectory of modern Japanese identity. Surprisingly, Lie argues that the belief in a monoethnic Japan is a post-World War II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of the monoethnic ideology. He also makes a general argument about the nature of national identity, delving into the mechanisms of social classification, signification and identification. |
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US |
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Harvard University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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