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Stefan Tanaka
Japan's Orient
Rendering Pasts into History
$26.95, £15.95 paperback
978-0-520-20170-5
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"There is no other book in English that approaches the sophistication of [Tanaka's] analysis of modern Japanese historiography."—Takashi Fujitani, Journal of Japanese Studies
"[A] sophisticated presentation. . . . Tanaka shows a similar relation between Japan's construction of its Orient, the Far East as Europe knows it, and Japanese imperialism."—Carol Gluck, Times Literary Supplement
"There is much of value about modern Japanese thought and culture to be learned from this well-crafted book."—George M. Wilson, American Historical Review
"Fascinating. . . . Tanaka has provided a rich account of the ways in which Japanese historians adopted and adapted European ideas of progress and cultural identity in order to reformulate their ideological relationship to China. An impressive work of scholarship."—Talal Asad, New School for Social Research
"[A] sophisticated presentation. . . . Tanaka shows a similar relation between Japan's construction of its Orient, the Far East as Europe knows it, and Japanese imperialism."—Carol Gluck, Times Literary Supplement
"There is much of value about modern Japanese thought and culture to be learned from this well-crafted book."—George M. Wilson, American Historical Review
"Fascinating. . . . Tanaka has provided a rich account of the ways in which Japanese historians adopted and adapted European ideas of progress and cultural identity in order to reformulate their ideological relationship to China. An impressive work of scholarship."—Talal Asad, New School for Social Research
Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts—Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese—to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.
Co-winner, John K. Fairbank Prize, American Historical Association