The Age of Visions and Arguments
Subtitle: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)
Publisher: Harvard University Asia Center
Published: July 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9780674017764
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - Japan; Political History; History / Japan; Sociology - General; 1868-1912; 19th century; Japan; Japan; Politics and government; Public interest; Teikoku Gikai
Description: "The Meiji Restoration of 1868 inaugurated a period of great change in Japan; it is seldom associated, however, with advances in civil and political rights. By studying parliamentarianism - the theories, arguments, and polemics marshaled in support of a representative system of government - Kyu Hyun Kim uncovers a much more complicated picture of this era than is usually given."--book jacket.