Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes - The Underside of Modern Japan

Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country’s era of booming economic growth.

Table des matières

Contents

Japanese Weights and Measures

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

Maps

Introduction

MODERNIZATION AND THE PEASANTS

FARMING AND FARM LIFE

MORALS AND MORES

RURAL WOMEN

THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL

THE OUTCASTE IN JAPAN

THE TEXTILE FACTORY WORKERS

POVERTY AND PROSTITUTION

THE COAL MINERS

WOMEN REBELS

EPILOGUE: THE POSTWAR YEARS

Notes

Index

A propos de l'auteur

Mikiso Hane

Résumé

Now updated with a substantive new introduction, this compelling social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a fascinating tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mikiso Hane
• Collaboration: Yamashita Samuel H. (Introduction)
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.10.2016
• EAN: 9781442274174
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-7417-4
• Pages: 392
• Thèmes: Asian Voices; Asian Voices (Paperback); Asian Voices
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Politics & government, Politics and government, Asian History, Human rights, civil rights, Japan;Modern Century;Modernization, Japan; Modern Century; Modernization