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Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (Volume 6) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power) by Takashi Fujitani is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-19</DIV
Who reads Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan (Volume 6) (Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Takashi Fujitani
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1996
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520920989
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Anthropology, Humanities
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