Japan's Competing Modernities: Issues in Culture and Democracy, 1900-1930

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Contents CONTENTS Contents Foreword by Gail Lee Bernstein ix Preface xi Introduction by Sharon A. Minichiello 1
I  Geographical and Cultural Space 1 Peopling the Japanese Empire: The Koreans in Manchuria and the Rhetoric of Inclusion 25 BARBARA J. BROOKS 2 Integrating into Chinese Society: A Comparison of the Japanese Communities of Shanghai and Harbin 45 JOSHUA A. FOGEL 3 Space and Aesthetic Imagination in Some Taishò Writings 70 ELAINE GERBERT 4 The City and the Countryside: Competing Taishò “Modernities” on Gender 91 MARIKO ASANO TAMANOI v 5 Naturalizing Nationhood: Ideology and Practice in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 114 JULIA ADENEY THOMAS 6 Asano Wasaburò and Japanese Spiritualism in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 133 HELEN HARDACRE
II  Cosmopolitanism and National Identity 7 Becoming Japanese: Imperial Expansion and Identity Crises in the Early Twentieth Century 157 TESSA MORRIS-SUZUKI 8 Culture, Ethnicity, and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Japan 181 KEVIN M. DOAK 9 Writing the National Narrative: Changing Attitudes toward Nation-Building among Japanese Writers, 1900–1930 206 ROY STARRS 10 The Bunriha and the Problem of “Tradition” for Modernist Architecture in Japan, 1920–1928 228 JONATHAN M. REYNOLDS 11 Defining the Modern Nation in Japanese Popular Song, 1914–1932 247 CHRISTINE R. YANO
III  Diversity, Autonomy, and Integration 12 Media Culture in Taishò Osaka 267 JEFFREY E. HANES 13 Zaikai and Taishò Demokurashii, 1900–1930 288 LONNY E. CARLILE vi CONTENTS 14 Fashioning a Culture of Diligence and Thrift: Savings and Frugality Campaigns in Japan, 1900–1931 312 SHELDON GARON 15 Visions of Women and the New Society in Conflict: Yamakawa Kikue versus Takamure Itsue 335 E. PATRICIA TSURUMI 16 Broadcasting in Korea, 1924–1937: Colonial Modernity and Cultural Hegemony 358 MICHAEL E. ROBINSON Contributors 379 Index 383 vii Contents ...