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- Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan
- Book
- 1997
- Published by: University of Hawai'i Press
summary
No institution did more to create a modern citizenry than the newspaper press of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Here was a collection of highly diverse, private voices that provided increasing numbers of readers--many millions by the end of the period--with both its fresh picture of the world and a changing sense of its own place in that world.
Creating a Public is the first comprehensive history of Japan's early newspaper press to appear in English in more than half a century. Drawing on decades of research in newspaper articles and editorials, journalists' memoirs and essays, it tells the story of Japan's newspaper press from its elitist beginnings just before the fall of the Tokugawa regime through its years as a shaper of a new political system in the 1880s to its emergence as a nationalistic, often sensational, medium early in the twentieth century.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- Chapter 2. Coming into Being, 1868
- pp. 36-45
- Chapter 7. Reporting a War, 1894 to 1895
- pp. 199-223
- Chapter 10. Leading a Public, 1905 to 1912
- pp. 310-358
- Conclusion
- pp. 359-380
- Appendix Five. Newspapers and the Law
- pp. 391-392
- Bibliography
- pp. 511-544
Additional Information
ISBN
9780824862015
Related ISBN(s)
9780824818821
MARC Record
OCLC
70766196
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No