Japan
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History and Culture from Classical to Cool
Nancy K. Stalker
overview
Japan: History and Culture from Classical to Cool provides a historical account of Japan’s elite and popular cultures from premodern to modern periods. Drawing on the most up-to-date scholarship across numerous disciplines, Nancy K. Stalker presents the key historical themes, cultural trends, and religious developments throughout Japanese history. Focusing on everyday life and ordinary consumption, this is the first textbook of its kind to explore both imperial and colonial culture and offer expanded content on issues pertaining to gender and sexuality. Organized into fourteen chronological and thematic chapters, this text explores some of the most notable and engaging aspects of Japanese life and is well suited for undergraduate classroom use.
contents
Preface
1. Early Japan
2. Forging a Centralized State (550–794)
3. The Rule of Taste: Lives of Heian Aristocrats (794–1185)
4. The Rise and Rule of the Warrior Class (12th–15th centuries)
5. Disintegration and Reunification (1460s–early 1600s)
6. Maintaining Control: Tokugawa Official Culture (1603–1850s)
7. Edo Popular Culture: The Floating World and Beyond (late 17th to mid-19th centuries)
8. Facing and Embracing the West (1850s–1900s)
9. Modernity and its Discontents (1900s–1930s)
10. Cultures of Empire and War (1900s–1940s)
11. Defeat and Reconstruction (1945–1970s)
12. “Cool” Japan as Cultural Superpower (1980s–2010s)
Notes
Index
