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Book The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae

Download or read book The Autobiography of Osugi Sakae written by Sakae Osugi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-12-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not only an important literary work but one of the major documents dealing with the development of the left-wing movement in modern Japanese politics."—Fred G. Notehelfer, author of Kotoku Shusui: Portrait of a Japanese Radical

Book My Escapes from Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : 大杉栄
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-12
  • ISBN : 9784907511166
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book My Escapes from Japan written by 大杉栄 and published by . This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Japanese anarchist on the run in 1920s Shanghai and Paris. "He handed me the bundle and I jumped on the train. As it left the station, I saw W. on the platform, his hand raised to bid me farewell. I signaled back the same; my final goodbye to the comrades in Japan." On December 11, 1922, Osugi Sakae snuck out of his house in Tokyo, ducking the watchful eyes of the police, to begin a journey to Europe to attend an international anarchist congress. This final work by Osugi, published in October 1923, is a collection of his writings about that trip (interspersed with memories of an earlier "escape" from Japan). The trip takes him first to Shanghai and then on to Lyon and Paris. Along the way, he meets Russian emigrees, Chinese and Korean nationalists, French bureaucrats, prostitutes, and midinettes, prison guards and inmates, and a cabaret dancer named Dolly. It was Osugi's last fling, just a few months before his life was cut short at the age of thirty-eight by the military police in Tokyo on September 16, 1923.

Book Osugi Sakai and the Japanese Anarchist Movement

Download or read book Osugi Sakai and the Japanese Anarchist Movement written by Kiyoshi Kurashige and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy K. Stalker
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2018-08-14
  • ISBN : 0520962834
  • Pages : 451 pages

Download or read book Japan written by Nancy K. Stalker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity

Download or read book Dandyism and Transcultural Modernity written by Hsiao-yen Peng and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book views the Neo-Sensation mode of writing as a traveling genre, or style, that originated in France, moved on to Japan, and then to China. The author contends that modernity is possible only on "the transcultural site"—transcultural in the sense of breaking the divide between past and present, elite and popular, national and regional, male and female, literary and non-literary, inside and outside. To illustrate the concept of transcultural modernity, three icons are highlighted on the transcultural site: the dandy, the flaneur, and the translator. Mere flaneurs and flaneurses simply float with the tide of heterogeneous information on the transcultural site, whereas the dandy/flaneur and the cultural translator, propellers of modernity, manage to bring about transformative creation. Their performance marks the essence of transcultural modernity: the self-consciousness of working on the threshold, always testing the limits of boundaries and tempted to go beyond them. To develop the concept of dandyism—the quintessence of transcultural modernity—the Neo-Sensation gender triad formed by the dandy, the modern girl, and the modern boy is laid out. Writers discussed include Liu Na’ou, a Shanghai dandy par excellence from Taiwan, Paul Morand, who looked upon Coco Chanel the female dandy as his perfect other self, and Yokomitsu Riichi, who developed the theory of Neo-Sensation from Kant’s the-thing-in-itself.

Book Anarchism in Korea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dongyoun Hwang
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2016-09-30
  • ISBN : 1438461690
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Anarchism in Korea written by Dongyoun Hwang and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a history of anarchism in Korea and challenges conventional views of Korean anarchism as merely part of nationalist ideology, situating the study within a wider East Asian regional context. Dongyoun Hwang demonstrates that although the anarchist movement in Korea began as part of its struggle for independence from Japan, connections with anarchists and ideas from China and Japan gave the movement a regional and transnational dimension that transcended its initial nationalistic scope. Following the movement after 1945, Hwang shows how anarchism in Korea was deradicalized and evolved into an idea for both social revolution and alternative national development, with emphasis on organizing and educating peasants and developing rural villages.

Book Signal  02

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  • Author : Josh MacPhee
  • Publisher : PM Press
  • Release : 2012-07-17
  • ISBN : 1604867531
  • Pages : 187 pages

Download or read book Signal 02 written by Josh MacPhee and published by PM Press. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Signal is an ongoing book series dedicated to documenting and sharing compelling graphics, art projects, and cultural movements of international resistance and liberation struggles. Artists and cultural workers have been at the center of upheavals and revolts the world over, from the painters and poets in the Paris Commune to the poster makers and street theatre performers of the recent Occupy movement. Signal will bring these artists and their work to a new audience, digging deep through our common history to unearth their images and stories. We have no doubt that Signal will come to serve as a unique and irreplaceable resource for activist artists and academic researchers, as well as an active forum for critique of the role of art in revolution. Highlights of the second volume ofSignal include: Anarchist Manga in Japan Breaking Chains: Political Graphics and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle Selling Freedom: Promotional Posters from the 1910s Street Art, Oaxacan Struggle, and the Mexican Context Covering the Wall: Revolutionary Murals in 1970s Portugal Røde Mor: Danish printmaking, pop music, and politics In the US there is a tendency to focus only on the artworks produced within our shores or from English speaking producers. Signal reaches beyond those bounds, bringing material produced the world over, translated from dozens of languages and collected from both the present and decades past. Though it is a full-color printed publication, Signal is not limited to the graphic arts. Within its pages you will find political posters and fine arts, comics and murals, street art, site-specific works, zines, art collectives, documentation of performance and articles on the often overlooked but essential role all of these have played in struggles around the world.

Book Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World  1870 1940

Download or read book Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World 1870 1940 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narratives of anarchist and syndicalist history during the era of the first globalization and imperialism (1870-1930) have overwhelmingly been constructed around a Western European tradition centered on discrete national cases. This parochial perspective typically ignores transnational connections and the contemporaneous existence of large and influential libertarian movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Yet anarchism and syndicalism, from their very inception at the First International, were conceived and developed as international movements. By focusing on the neglected cases of the colonial and postcolonial world, this volume underscores the worldwide dimension of these movements and their centrality in anti-colonial and anti-imperialist struggles. Drawing on in-depth historical analyses of the ideology, structure, and praxis of anarchism/syndicalism, it also provides fresh perspectives and lessons for those interested in understanding their resurgence today. Contributors are Luigi Biondi, Arif Dirlik, Anthony Gorman, Steven Hirsch, Dongyoun Hwang, Geoffroy de Laforcade, Emmet O'Connor, Kirk Shaffer, Aleksandr Shubin, Edilene Toledo, and Lucien van der Walt. With a foreword by Benedict Anderson.

Book Advertising Tower

    Book Details:
  • Author : William O. Gardner
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-05-11
  • ISBN : 1684174279
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Advertising Tower written by William O. Gardner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a December morning in 1925, a newspaper journalist reported receiving 25 different handbills in an hour’s walk in downtown Tokyo, advertising everything from Western-style clothing and furniture to sweet shops, charity organizations, phonograph recordings, plays, and films. The activities of advertisers, and the new entertainment culture and patterns of consumption that they promoted, helped to define a new urban aesthetic emerging in the 1920s. This book examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the twentieth century. In particular, it explores the themes and formal strategies of the modernist literature that flourished in the 1920s, focusing on the work of Hagiwara Kyojiro (1899-1938) and Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). William Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of individual subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of "mass media." Hagiwara’s conception of the poem and poet as an electric-radio "advertising tower" provides an emblem for the aesthetic tensions and multiple discourses of technology, media, urbanism, commerce, and propaganda that were circulating through the urban environment at the time; while Hayashi’s work, with its references to popular songs, plays, and movies, suggests an understanding of "everyday life" as the interface between individual subjectivity and a highly mediated environment.

Book Pan Asianism and Japan s War 1931 1945

Download or read book Pan Asianism and Japan s War 1931 1945 written by E. Hotta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the critical importance of Pan-Asianism in Japanese imperialism. Pan-Asianism was a cultural as well as political ideology that promoted Asian unity and recognition. The focus is on Pan-Asianism as a propeller behind Japan's expansionist policies from the Manchurian Incident until the end of the Pacific War.

Book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature written by Haruo Shirane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight into both canonical texts and many lesser known, popular genres, from centuries-old folk literature to the detective fiction of modern times. The various period introductions provide an overview of recurrent issues that span many decades, if not centuries. The book also places Japanese literature in a wider East Asian tradition of Sinitic writing and provides comprehensive coverage of women's literature as well as new popular literary forms, including manga (comic books). An extensive bibliography of works in English enables readers to continue to explore this rich tradition through translations and secondary reading.

Book An Encyclopedia of Japanese History

Download or read book An Encyclopedia of Japanese History written by Chris Spackman and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book The Emperors of Modern Japan

Download or read book The Emperors of Modern Japan written by Ben-Ami Shillony and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book offers a fascinating picture of the four emperors of modern Japan, their institution, their personalities and their impact on the history of their country. Leading scholars from Japan and other countries have contributed essays which treat this subject from various angles.

Book Modern Japanese Thought

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bob T. Wakabayashi
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1998-03-28
  • ISBN : 9780521588102
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Modern Japanese Thought written by Bob T. Wakabayashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive intellectual history describing the forces that made Japanese thinkers both receptive and hostile to Western ideas and values.

Book An Official Guide to Eastern Asia  North eastern Japan

Download or read book An Official Guide to Eastern Asia North eastern Japan written by Japan. Tetsudōin and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japanese Literature in the Meiji Era

Download or read book Japanese Literature in the Meiji Era written by 岡崎義恵 and published by Tokyo, Obunsha. This book was released on 1955 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marxism  an Historical and Critical Study

Download or read book Marxism an Historical and Critical Study written by George Lichtheim and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1965 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marxism presents an authoritative, analytic survey of the course of Marxism, from its origins in the late eighteenth century through the post-World War II period. A classic of political history, this work is the culminating achievement of one of the leading historians of socialism.