Tradition and Modernization in Japanese Culture

ISBN: 9780691617183 出版年：2015 页码：710 Princeton University Press

Essays on the iwakura embassy, the realistic painter takahashi yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the japanese went about borrowing from the west in the first decades after the restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of western models to meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes.