Japan and the specter of imperialism
By: Mark Anderson.
Publisher: Palgrave-Macmillan; Palgrave MacMillan; Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780230619227
Subjects: Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History; Capitalism -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History; Family -- Japan -- History; Japanese literature -- 1868- -- History and criticism; Imperialism in literature; Japan in literature; Japan -- Foreign relations -- 1868-1912; Japan -- Commercial treaties; Japan -- Politics and government -- 1868-1912; Japan -- Social conditions -- 1868-1912
Genres: Commercial treaties
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Ansei treaties and the specter of imperialism; title: John Luther Long's Madame Butterfly and imperial domesticity; title: The science of making men : moral fitness for global competition; title: Imperial aesthetics and the state in Meiji Japan; title: Aesthetics and the moral capital of the family state; title: Governmentality and melodramatic resistance in Ozaki Koyo's Konjiki yasha (The gold demon); title: Haga Yaichi's institution of classical Japanese literature : national community, governmentality, and colonial domesticity.