Power and Dissent in Imperial Japan
- Three Forms of Political Engagement
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- Engelsk
- 330 sider
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This volume examines the careers and intellectual positions of three prominent Japanese "dissidents" in the later Imperial period - Minobe Tatsukichi, Sakai Toshihiko and Saito Takao - as individual responses to the new forms of authority that appeared after the Meiji Restoration of 1868.
The principles to which each adhered - the rule of law, socialist egalitarianism, and representative government - contributed to the new ideas about authority and the individual in post-Restoration Japan. They also remain fundamental (at least in theory) in today's Japanese polity and society. The study reaffirms the serious limitations of the pre-war Japanese political system, its structural and institutional problems, and deep-rooted ambivalence about democratic change. But it also confirms the birth of an alternative tradition in which individuals began to define and sponsor the processes of national self-regulation.
The book traces the perspectives of three such individuals who chose to contest the new power arrangements through their writings and political activities.
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- SprogEngelsk
- Sidetal330
- Udgivelsesdato01-08-2013
- ISBN139788776941178
- Forlag NIAS Press
- FormatHardback
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10 cm
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