Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization / / ed. by Marius B. Jansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: Bellah, Robert N.,; Craig, Albert,; Dore, R. P.,; Hackett, Roger F.,; Hall, John Whitney,; Hay, Stephen N.,; Howes, John F.,; Jansen, Marius B.,; Katō, Sūichi,; Maruyama, Masao,; Passin, Herbert,; Shively, Donald H.,; Webb, Herschel,; Wilhelm, Hellmut,
• HerausgeberIn: Jansen, Marius B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1965
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the Modernization of Japan ; 2012
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (558 p.)

The results of the process of modernization which started in Japan in the 19th century and continues today are remarkable in history. This volume contains essays by leading scholars on Japan, including two important studies on the impact of modernization on the life of the country. It is the first in a series of five volumes that stems from the Association for Asian Studies' Conference on Modern Japan.Originally published in 1965.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- PART ONE. The Genesis and Nature of the Inquiry -- CHAPTER I. Changing Conceptions of the Modernization of Japan1 -- CHAPTER II. Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization -- PART TWO. The Tokugawa Setting -- CHAPTER III. The Legacy of Tokugawa Education -- CHAPTER IV. Science and Confucianism in Tokugawa Japan -- PART THREE. The Symbol and the Substance of Power -- CHAPTER V. The Development of an Orthodox Attitude Toward the Imperial Institution in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER VI. Nishimura Shigeki: A Confucian View of Modernization -- CHAPTER VII. The Meiji Leaders and Modernization: The Case of Yamagata Aritomo -- PART FOUR. Cultural Contrasts: China and India -- CHAPTER VIII. Chinese Confucianism on the Eve of the Great Encounter -- CHAPTER IX. Western and Indigenous Elements in Modern Indian Thought: The Case of Rammohun Roy -- PART FIVE. The New Values and the Old -- CHAPTER X. Japanese Christians and American Missionaries -- CHAPTER XI. Ienaga Saburo and the Search for Meaning in Modern Japan -- CHAPTER XII. Japanese Writers and Modernization -- CHAPTER XIII. Modernization and the Japanese Intellectual: Some Comparative Observations -- CHAPTER XIV. Patterns of Individuation and the Case of Japan: A Conceptual Scheme -- List of Contributors -- Index