The age of visions and arguments : : parliamentarianism and the national public sphere in early Meiji Japan / / Kyu Hyun Kim.

• Superior document: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 247
• VerfasserIn: Kim, Kyu Hyun, 1963-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, Massachusetts ;, London, England : : Harvard University Asia Center,, [2007]; 2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 247.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Theoretical and Historiographical Considerations -- Political Discourse and the Public Spherein Transition from Tokugawa to Meiji Japan -- The Meiji State, Nation-Building, and the Public Sphere, 1868-74 -- Parliamentarianism in Ascendancy, 1874-78 -- Metropolitan Intellectual Associations, 1871-82 -- Local Notables and the Parliamentarian Movement, 1878-82 -- "Lecture Circuits" and Communicative Polyphony: The Political Culture of Early Meiji Japan -- Parliamentarianism and the Meiji State: Toward the Consolidation of State Ideologies, 1874-81 -- The 1881 Crisis and the Hokkaidō Colonial Office Scandal -- Civic Constitutions in the Public Sphere -- "Pre-Diet" Political Parties: Parliamentarianism Institutionalized (1), 1881-84 -- "With My Own Two Eyes . . . I Want to See the Opening of the Diet": Parliamentarianism Institutionalized (2), 1884-90 -- The National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan -- Bibliography -- Character List of Names -- Character List of Terms -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.