Japan's private spheres : : autonomy in Japanese history, 1600-1930 / / by W. Puck Brecher.
"Japan's Private Spheres: Autonomy in Japanese History, 1600-1930 traces the shifting nature of autonomy in early modern and modern Japan. In this far-reaching, interdisciplinary study, W. Puck Brecher explores the historical development of the private and its evolving relationship with pu...
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| Superior document: | The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Intimate and the Public in Asian and Global Perspectives
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 364 pages) :; illustrations, maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The private "problem"
- Public and private in pre-Meiji thought and society
- The private self and the Meiji-Taisho state
- Peripheries as private spheres
- Boyhood as an autonomous sphere
- "Publicizing" the private : self-interrogation and self-indulgence in the arts
- The deviant in Meiji society : autonomy, individuality, and public power
- The private individual in early Meiji education (1872-1890s)
- Education and public individuality (1890s-1927)
- Vacationing and moral authority
- Nationalizing the body : physical exercise as a public ethic
- Conclusion: Can modern Japan's private spheres be moral?