Madge Huntington: 1 book
Before the Nation
Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L. Burns provides a close examination ofthe late-eighteenth-century intellectual movement kokugaku, which means "the study of our country.” Departing from earlier studies of...
