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Vidović, Ferderbar Dragica. "In limine : writers, culture and modernity in interwar Japan." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2004. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/27985.
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‘Everybody who writes history has a bone to pick with the past’ said George
Wilson. Perhaps not so much with the past itself as with the images of the past created
by other historians. The images and concepts are created, moulded not only by the
practical needs and expectations of the time and place that produced them, but also
coloured by the theory fashionable at the time. They seem to be useful for a period of
time, but at a certain stage they become a hindrance rather than a help, as they tend to
limit rather than expand our knowledge of the past. One such concept is that of
nationalism.
Although it is far from clear what exactly constitutes nationalism, the immediate
association is that of some sort of selfish claim by a group which calls itself a nation or
aspires to become one. If it is for the self, it must necessarily be against somebody else,
so goes our reasoning. Anything that excludes has a particularly bad press right now and
this is reflected in the amount of scholarship on nationalism. This renewed interest in the
subject is due to the break-up of the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries
in the last decade or so, because of the scale and viciousness of nationalist struggles
between various ethnic groups. However, in Western studies of Japanese history the
subject of nationalism never went out of fashion, so to speak. While most of modern
Japan’s history is viewed, judged and understood, or misunderstood, through the prism of
nationalism, this is particularly true of the interwar period. Not only are the military
adventures on the continent seen as an example of nationalism, but most, if not all,
intellectual discourse of the period is labelled ‘cultural nationalism’.
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Wong-Lifton, Anyi. "Multinational Manga Memories: Osamu Tezuka’s Postwar Japanese Critique of Nationalism in Message to Adolf." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1196.
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Manga masterpiece Message to Adolf’s fictional narrative intertwines the Holocaust, romance, espionage, and friendship in its international World War II-focused narrative. Using theory on nationalism and Japanese memories of WWII, this thesis argues the violence the characters initiate and suffer blurs lines between perpetrator, hero, and victim to critique the power of nationalism. Its message concerning the danger of nationalism is as applicable for global audiences now as when it was published in 1985.
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Nuez, Pérez Maria Eugenia de la. "La création de l'identité nationale en Grèce et au Japon aux XVIIIème et XIXème siècles." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR30050/document.
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Depuis toujours, les peuples ont éprouvé le besoin de se différencier les uns des autres et, en même temps de trouver ce qui leur était propre, c’est-à-dire leur identité (culturelle d’abord et puis nationale). Une première définition d’identité est faite grâce aux réflexions des savants du XVIIIe siècle même si cette définition répond essentiellement aux besoins des élites au sein desquelles elle est néé. Cette utilisation de la part des élites sera plus évidente au siècle suivant lors de la formation des Etats-nations. Dans ce contexte, ce qui auparavant était « identité culturelle » deviendra dans plusieurs cas « identité nationale ». En considérant l’identité nationale comme le résultat d’un processus de création plus que comme un sentiment inné à l’intérieur des communautés, nous pouvons entreprendre la comparaison de ce qui peut sembler à simple vue « incomparable ». Pour montrer que cette étude comparative est possible, voire intéressante, pour mieux comprendre la façon dans laquelle les Etats-nations ont créé le « mythe » de l’esprit national, nous avons choisi les exemples de la Grèce et du Japon parce que, malgré leurs différences et leur éloignement culturel et géographique, leur évolution est presque parallèle. Utilisant la langue, l’histoire, les croyances, la littérature et les « traditions » ainsi que des modèles extérieurs, les intellectuels grecs et japonais vont créer leurs propres réflexions sur l’identité culturelle au XVIIIe siècle ; une identité qui deviendra le fondement de leur identité nationale lorsque l’Etat-nation adviendra dans les deux territoires au XIXe siècle. Avec cette thèse notre objectif est de répondre à la question de la création identitaire en Grèce et au Japon en examinant les raisons, les auteurs, les éléments (aussi bien externes –éléments communs- qu’internes –éléments distinctifs-) et les résultats de ce processusSince Antiquity, people have felt the need to establish difference between them employing various elements. At the time, they try to discover the common elements between them: that is, their identity. Thanks to the reflexion made by 18th century savants, the first definition of cultural identity was accorded. But this definition was born until the elite class and was employed by these elite in reaching their political objectives. However, elite have employed the elements that were common with the lower classes people as well.If we see the national identity as the outcome of a process thus we can compared it is “incomparable”. To montred that this comparative study is possible, we have choised the examples of Greece and Japan because they have specially interesting. Despite of geographical and cultural distance and political and historical difference, these territories showed parallel developpments in their reflexiion of identity. Employing language, history, beliefs, literature and external models, Japanese and Greel intellectuals created in 18th century their own reflexion on cultural identity. This reflexion become the fundament of the national identity at the middle of 19th century whem Japan and Greece become Nation-Etat.With this study, we can try to answer the question of identity creation by examining reasons, actors, elements both internal (distinctives elements) and external (common elements) and outcome into the process
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Jex, Chie Muroga. "Social conformity and nationalism in Japan." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000155.
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Zhou, Guanfeng, and 周冠峰. "Nationalism and Japan's China policy: a normative study of nationalism & foreign policy making." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2009. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B42841598.
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Zhou, Guanfeng. "Nationalism and Japan's China policy a normative study of nationalism & foreign policy making /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2009. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B42841598.
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Yoshino, Kosaku. "Cultural nationalism in contemporary Japan : a sociological enquiry /." London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb355737706.
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Iida, Yumiko. "Rethinking identity in modern Japan : nationalism as aesthetics /." Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2002. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40016503j.
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Fawcett, Clare P. "A study of the socio-political context of Japanese archaeology /." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74651.
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This thesis uses a study of the relationship between Japanese archaeology and its social, political and economic context to explore the issue of relativism versus positivism in archaeological interpretation. This is done through (1) a historical analysis of the growth of Japanese archaeological work and buried cultural properties administration prior to and after 1945, (2) a description of how Japanese political and business elites have used archaeological sites and information from the Asuka area to create a symbol of the Japanese people's national identity and (3) a presentation of opinions of archaeologists working in the buried cultural properties administrative system, during the mid-1980s, about the role of archaeology in contemporary Japan. This analysis of the history of Japanese archaeology shows that archaeological data have been used to rewrite a new Japanese history from 1945, but that archaeologists, while retaining control of the organization of archaeological research, may not control how archaeological information is used by the society as a whole. The study concludes that neither an extreme positivist nor an extreme relativist position is valid when discussing the relationship between archaeology and its social context.
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Meyer, Stanislaw. "Citizenship, culture and identity in prewar Okinawa." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37781248.
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Cathcart, Adam. "Chinese nationalism in the shadow of Japan, 1945-1950 /." View abstract, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3191703.
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Morita, Dai. "The Roles of Nationalism in Neoliberalisation The Case of Neoliberalisation and Nationalism in Recent Japan." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science and Communication, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1809.
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As Karl Polanyi explained in his famous book, The Great Transformation,
freeing economic life from social and political controls was tried and promoted firstly
in England in the mid-nineteenth century by constructing the free market that operated
independently of social needs. This new type of economy allowed prices of all goods,
including money, land and labour, to be changeable without regard to their effects on
society. The creation of the free market was achieved by demolishing previous
markets, which were embedded in society with many kinds of regulations. Today,
what transnational organisations, including the World Trade Organisation, the
International Monetary Fund and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development, are trying to achieve seems to have many similarities with the great
transformation in the mid-nineteenth century.
In the early 20th century the laissez-faire economy was challenged by a series
of world incidents, including World War I, the Great Depression and World War II. In
the post-war period, the Western world adopted the so-called Keynesian compromise,
in which the foreign currency exchange rate was fixed to the US dollar, and the state
intervened to keep a clear division of domestic and international economy and to
maintain the welfare of society, while international trade, especially financial trade,
was limited.1 The situation gradually changed from the mid 1970s when the fixed
currency exchange was lifted, and the velocity of change accelerated during the 1980s.
Known as neoliberalisation, various markets, including the financial market, had been
liberalized, and post-war Keynesian welfare states were dismantled in a number of
nation-states. In the 1990s, neoliberalisation became a global phenomenon with the
emergence of international and regional institutions, including the World Trade
Organisation (WTO), the World Bank, the North America Free Trade Area (NAFTA)
and the European Union (EU), playing an important role in neoliberal economic
reforms and structural adjustments in not only developed countries, but also in
undeveloped and developing countries. Almost all nation-states in the world became
part of the process of neoliberalisation, and therefore neoliberalisation is often used
interchangeably with globalisation.
Similar to the laissez-faire economy in the period of 19th century, current
ongoing neoliberalisation transformed our society by causing a number of social
issues and problems. The unprecedented volume of global financial trade created
great uncertainty in a highly interdependent international economy, and made our
domestic daily life more and more volatile through the connection to the international
economy. Unequal development in the global north and south became increasingly
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noticeable, and inside nation-states the social gap has been increasing. Moreover, the
erosion of other social spheres by expanding the sphere of economy prompts ordinary
people into the world of mass consumption and induces consumerism and atomism
while excluding them from the important political and economic decision-making
processes. The same period saw a revival of nationalism. Nationalism can be seen as a
countermovement against current ongoing globalisation, like Islamic fundamentalism,
but the revitalisation of nationalism also can be seen in the developed north during the
process of neoliberalisation, like cultural nationalism in the US under Reagan
administration.
Encountering and seeing neoliberalisation and the revival of nationalism
simultaneously, we face to a theoretical paradox that neoliberalism and nationalism
appear to be in conflict with each other, in the sense that while neoliberalism’s
ideology is methodologically and normatively individualist, nationalism is premised
on collectivist interests and sentiments. Yet politically, and particular in recent
Japanese politics, they seem to be compatible and even mutually reinforcing. To
explore and elucidate this apparently contradictory relationship, this thesis presents an
analysis of neoliberalisation and the roles of nationalism in neoliberalisation in the
developing north, using the case of Japan.
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Iida, Yumiko. "Sources of Japanese identity modernity, nationalism and world hegemony /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0026/NQ39273.pdf.
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Blickby, Sebastian. "Japansk Nationalism : En tillämpning av fyra nationalismteorier på Japan under åren 1853-1939." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-33672.
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Denna uppsats är en teoristyrd litteraturstudie om japansk nationalism under perioden 1853-1939. Syftet med studien är att tillämpa fyra nationalismteorier på utvecklingen av nationalismen i Japan, för att undersöka vilken av de fyra nationalismteorierna som bäst stämmer överens med det japanska exemplet.
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Boyd, James Patrick 1971. "States of the nations : nationalism, narratives and normative change in Postwar Japan." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77824.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 2012.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-467).
This dissertation evaluates claims that nationalism is rising in post-Cold War Japan by first noting the disconnect between existent social science conceptions of nationalism and those needed to examine how nationalism might change in contemporary, peaceful, wealthy, and stable democracies such as postwar Japan. This study defines nationalism as a discourse that constructs and reconstructs points of identification and differentiation that define both a political community (i.e. "nation") and the form of its domain over a modern territorial state. It argues nationalism is best understood as reoccurring "nation-state narratives" that tell the story of how the nation's putative qualities or past experiences define the present nature of its territorial state. Change in nationalism is evaluated through content and discourse analysis of five narratives expressing the relationship between the Japanese people and their state in a sample of elite discourse drawn from the period 1952-2007. The analysis reveals that references to all five narratives peak in the immediate postwar period and again in the 1980s before declining to lows in the post-Cold War period, which also saw the highest level of contestation over these narratives in the nearly sixty years of the study. In particular, the narrative depicting Japan as an anti-militarist/pacifist nation-state as well as the narrative emphasizing Japan as an ethnically homogeneous nation-state proved the most contested during this period, while the narrative affirming Japan as a democratic nation-state went uncontested. Political struggles over reforming institutions associated with the narratives were found to be the major drivers behind these changes, although characteristics of the narratives, especially the specificity of their normative claims, also shaped this process. The post-Cold War period is thus one of transition in nationalist discourse in Japan, although the scale of change is somewhat limited. For example, while the anti-militarist/pacifist narrative saw exceptions attached to many of its normative claims, its anti-nuclear components and cognitive claims remained unchallenged. Finally, Japanese nationalist discourse continued to legitimate democracy and was found to shape important electoral reforms, even as it shifted away from more insular and exclusionary forms, which may create space for more open immigration policies moving forward.
by James Patrick Boyd, III.
Ph.D.
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Arimoto, Takeshi. "Body culture and nationalism in modernizing Japan from 1868 to the 1920s." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2011. http://research.gold.ac.uk/6382/.
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Aviv, Aviva. "Ahad Ha-Am's concept of Jewish nationalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359620.
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Reynolds, Matthew Osmund Royle. "English poetry and European nationalism, 1830-1870." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.364175.
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Reinhold, Christiane I. "Studying the enemy : Japan hands in Republican China and their quest for national identity, 1925-1945 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Reinhold, Christiane Ingeborg Monika. "Studying the enemy : Japan hands in Republican China and their quest for national identity, 1925-1945 /." Digital version accessible at:, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Hollingsworth, Mark. "Nineteenth-century Shakespeares : nationalism and moralism." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10551/.
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This thesis shows that 'Shakespeare' (both the works and the man) was at the forefront of literary activity in the nineteenth century. By focusing on concerns about the identity of the British nation and its people it shows that Shakespeare was a constant presence in the debates of the day and that a number of agendas were pursued through what were ostensibly writings about Shakespeare's plays and the biography of their author. The Introduction first notes Shakespeare's transition from Elizabethan playwright to Victorian cultural icon and proceeds to outline nineteenth-century critical practice and changes in the social organisation of knowledge. From here the shift in how Shakespeare was considered is noted as well as the fact that, despite increasing interest in the history of the phenomenon, the nineteenth century has been largely neglected. What exploration there has been of this period has tended, by its nature as part of larger surveys or issue-specific studies, to oversimplify the complexities of nineteenth-century criticism. Further to this, the nineteenth century itself is often treated as a time of unsophisticated development and as a precursor to modern thought rather than a period of interest in its own right. A variety of what this thesis terms 'literary pursuits' during this period are then contextualised, as well as the changing role of the critic in nineteenth-century society. This is accompanied by an exploration of the community of readers and writers who would have engaged with these works. Finally, the methodological decisions which have directed this thesis are explained, including the privileging of page over stage, and the choice of those nineteenth-century writers who have been examined. The main body of the thesis is divided into two sections: Part One (Chapters One and Two) gives a broad taxonomy of ways in which nineteenth-century writers used Shakespeare as a means for addressing other issues, and Part Two (Chapter Three) uses a specific case study through which to examine these particular issues. It shows that attitudes to Shakespeare were shaped by an ongoing dialogue concerning the identity of the nation and its population. However, while there was much commonality regarding the agendas for which Shakespeare was used, the ways in which various different writers approached this was surprisingly diverse. Chapter One, 'Nationalism,' looks at how Shakespeare could be used in order to serve a nationalistic agenda: this involved either allying Shakespeare with the nation itself (by utilising Shakespeare's nationality, writing in a rhetorically charged manner, or interpreting Shakespeare's works in a certain fashion), or equating the nineteenth century with the early modern period (and highlighting various commonalities or differences with those times). The concept of nationalism is contextualised by looking at various attitudes to the nation which were driven by the challenges of the expanding Empire. Chapter Two, 'Moralism,' looks at the ways in which Shakespeare was used as a tool by those who sought to promote certain behavioural traits amongst their readers. The different ways in which writers made use of Shakespeare are situated within a discussion of nineteenth-century philosophical and moral positions. This chapter looks successively at what is termed 'Private Moralism' (a concern with abstract ideas, such as self-control and adherence to familial or religious ties), and 'Public Moralism' (that is, efforts to improve the outward or physical attributes of individuals, such as financial accumulation or class status). Part Two of the thesis focuses on how Victorian writers used Shakespeare specifically in relation to Shakespeare's Sonnets. To this end, Chapter Three, 'The Sonnets,' looks at how writings on the Sonnets pursued moral or nationalistic agendas. This chapter also seeks to draw together the strands of nationalism and moralism by showing that anxieties about the state of Britain fed into writing about the Sonnets at this time and that this involved a complex debate about the Sonnets, ancient Greece, and the nature of what would today be termed homosexuality. A significant contention of this chapter is that nineteenth-century attitudes towards the Sonnets need to be appreciated on their own terms rather than anachronistically via a modern understanding of homosexuality. The Conclusion suggests that Shakespeare was used by nineteenth-century critics and biographers as a location within which to debate certain overarching concerns of the day. How these issues were approached, however, took different forms and Shakespeare was employed for different ends, which points to a general unease regarding the identity of the nation. As the formal institutionalising of the English Literary canon was taking place during the period covered by this thesis it seems reasonable to suggest that the use of Shakespeare was related to Shakespeare's position of dominance within the canon. Finally, suggestions are made as to how the ease with which Shakespeare could be used - as well as the unavoidable difficulties which are attendant with Shakespeare - might have affected this process of canonisation.
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Yu, Guo. "Dynamics of popular nationalism in China’s Japan policy in post-Cold War era." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3431/.
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The principal aim of this thesis is to seek answers to the two core research questions: how has popular nationalism been instrumental in China’s Japan policy vis-à-vis its domestic politics since the end of the Cold War? And, how and to what extent Chinese government has manage popular nationalism in foreign and domestic policy practices? Using Japan as an empirical subject, this thesis explores and investigates the complex interactive relations between popular nationalism, in particular emotions and sentiment, and foreign policy and domestic politics in post-Cold War China. The work takes a constructivist view, of which popular nationalism, foreign policy and domestic politics are seen as mutually constituted. Taking two recent diplomatic frictions between China and Japan as case studies, the thesis critically examines the mutually constitutive effects of popular nationalism on China’s Japan policy in respective to its domestic politics. In addition, the work’s pioneering studies on the new ‘inward outcry’ syndrome in Chinese nationalism further highlights the mutual constitutive relations among popular nationalism, foreign policy and domestic politics. This thesis argues that popular nationalism plays a dynamic role in shaping China’s Japan policy. On the one hand, popular nationalism may instrumentalise to serve China’s domestic and international objectives. On the other hand, popular nationalism has to be delicately managed in order to maintain social stability, amicable relations with Japan, and increasingly, China’s international image and reputation.
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Mizobe, Atsuko. "Nationalism in school textbooks : a comparative study of Britain and Japan, 1919-1955." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387439.
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Nationalism is now unfashionable among intellectuals, but before the Second World War it was a dominant ideology all over the world and had a great influence, directly and indirectly, on the formation of one's world view. The following study intends to examine how two nationalisms, British and Japanese, interpreted the world in school textbooks. Britain and Japan represent different kinds of nationalism, western and eastern respectively. The world has been described largely from the western point of view since the West has continued to be the centre of historical writing for these five hundred years. Yet, presumably, the rising sun on the eastern horizon should have had a different picture; and to correct this imbalance by adding a synchronistic viewpoint is one of the aims of this study. Before starting the textbook analysis, however, the distinctively different education systems Britain and Japan possess are explained in Chapter 1. This study is divided into three parts, following three aspects of nationalism: national tradition, national mission and national character in that order. There is in fact considerable overlap between them, but the first part concentrates on exploring where the national pride of the two countries originated from and how the idea of honour to one's country was implanted in young minds. In the second the raison d'etre of each nation in the world defined according to their national tradition is discussed. Then the last part compares the two national characters inherited from the past and thought to be necessary to carry out their historical missions. In each chapter, 'continuity' is also an important theme. Did any shift in emphasis or focus take place after the two world wars? Most significantly, Britain has never lost a war since 1776, and therefore it could be argued that she has never been urged to reflect upon her past seriously for she always could justify herself. On the other hand,. Japan accepted unconditional surrender in 1945 and her imperialism was condemned by the whole international community. How did these markedly different experiences affect the world view in textbooks?
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Barker, David. "The transnational identities and ethnocultural capital of Zainichi residing in Vancouver, Canada /." Burnaby, BC : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/661.
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Kurokawa, Makoto. "NATIONALISM AND ISLANDS DISPUTE IN THE EAST CHINA SEA." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/22629.
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China and Japan have claimed sovereignty of tiny, inhabitant islands in the East China Sea for a long time. This paper attempts to analyze this territorial dispute from the conflict transformation perspective to seek a peaceful end. I believe that Nationalism plays a key role and interferes to resolve the dispute by international conflict resolution methods. To prove the influence of the nationalism on the dispute, I conducted a survey to measure individual’s nationalistic attributions and inquire attitudes toward the islands dispute of Chinese and Japanese. The survey result shows that a majority of the both Chinese and Japanese participants having a strong individual nationalistic attribution support their nation’s sovereignty over the islands. Moreover, a majority of the Chinese and Japanese having a weak individual nationalistic attribution do not support their nations’ sovereignty rather take different positions regarding to the islands dispute.
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Kurokawa, Makoto. "NATIONALISM AND ISLANDS DISPUTE IN THE EAST CHINA SEA." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23093.
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China and Japan have claimed sovereignty of tiny, inhabitant islands in the East China Sea for a long time. This paper attempts to analyze this territorial dispute from the conflict transformation perspective to seek a peaceful end. I believe that Nationalism plays a key role and interferes to resolve the dispute by international conflict resolution methods. To prove the influence of the nationalism on the dispute, I conducted a survey to measure individual’s nationalistic attributions and inquire attitudes toward the islands dispute of Chinese and Japanese. The survey result shows that a majority of the both Chinese and Japanese participants having a strong individual nationalistic attribution support their nation’s sovereignty over the islands. Moreover, a majority of the Chinese and Japanese having a weak individual nationalistic attribution do not support their nations’ sovereignty rather take different positions regarding to the islands dispute.
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Ntalindwa, Raymond. "Nuruddin Farah and the issues of Somali nationalism." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321738.
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Harney, Stephen Matthias Rosati. "Imagined Trinidads : nationalism and literature in a Caribbean diaspora." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.358280.
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Kane, Michael. "Modern men: literature, nationalism, war and sexuality 1880-1930 /." Berlin : [s.n.], 1996. http://www.ub.unibe.ch/content/bibliotheken_sammlungen/sondersammlungen/dissen_bestellformular/index_ger.html.
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Teshima, Taeko. "Myths of Hakko Ichiu: Nationalism, Liminality, and Gender in Official Ceremonies of Modern Japan." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194943.
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Despite the fact that hakko ichiu ideology was the key device deployed by fascists to mobilize the Japanese for total war, Japanese studies have not reexamined the meaning of wartime hakko ichiu ideology and its historical continuity during the postwar era.This study traces and analyzes the meaning and intent of wartime hakko ichiu ideology and how it has evolved in official events spanning nearly 60 years from the 1940 ceremony of the 2600th Anniversary of the Accession of Emperor Jinmu through Expo '70 and the 1998 Nagano Winter Games. The first part of the study analyzes how Meiji nationalists between 1868 to 1905 used a Western model of gender to create a maternal image of Amaterasu as the empress. This image became the primary Japanese icon of female gender. The second part of the study traces the development of hakko ichiu ideology in three official events over a half-century. By examining the representation of Nippon News No. 23, Part1, (the film version of the Opening Ceremony of the 2600th Anniversary of the Accession of Emperor Jinmu), I argue against the traditional meaning of hakko ichiu--as mere colonialism--and redefine its meaning in terms of dominance and unity. I also discuss the interrelationships among gender, national matsuri, and hakko ichiu ideology. Finally, I examine how, by deploying national matsuri in the opening ceremonies of official postwar events, neo-nationalists were able to revive hakko ichiu ideology and promote neo-emperor worship. In doing so, they used hakko ichiu ideology as an effective instrument to avoid the constraints of the Peace Constitution that grew out of the peace treaty ratified after the end of World War II.
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Parks, Tabitha Lynn. "In another place, not here a reappropriation of Caribbean nationalism /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2003. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0000764.
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Leontis, Artemis Sophia. "Territiories of Hellenism : Neohellenic modernism, nationalism, and the classical tradition /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487688507505346.
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Siuda, Peter T. "Legendary patriot or corrupt egoist? an analysis of Tōyama Mitsuru through an interpretation of Dai Saiḡo Ikun /." Connect to this title, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/115/.
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Morris, David Z. "Minzoku madness: hip hop and Japanese national subjectivity." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/558.
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Japan is currently undergoing a subtle but pervasive social upheaval, a period of broad structural reform and soul-searching triggered by the rigors of the collapse of the hyperinflated "Bubble Economy" of the late 1980s. As the nation confronts the irretrievable loss of that economic mass delusion, it is turning instead to the reclamation of a quality of life sacrificed for much of the 20th century to national ambition for first military, and then economic pre-eminence. Historian Jeff Kingston has claimed that the ongoing changes, ranging from the reduction of working hours to the institution of freedom of information laws, have been equal in magnitude to those following the Meiji Restoration and Japan's defeat in World War II. Arguably, they represent the long-delayed fruition of postwar democratizing reforms.
This dissertation examines the role of American popular music, and particularly hip hop, in reflecting and shaping these changes. Starting with the 1920s and 1930s, when jazz-loving "modern girls" stood for the alluring and threatening decadence of urbanization, the influence of American music on Japan has been strong for decades. This influence came to full flower during and after Japan's surrender and subsequent occupation, as exemplified by successive trends for everything from rockabilly to country and western to folk. Though obviously the condition of occupation enhanced the exchange of musical texts, and did exercise particularly economic pressure on Japanese musicians to adopt American styles, it is not simply a case of cultural adaptation motivated by domination of force. The central testament to this is the eventual role African-American music - not just jazz, but rock, funk, and soul - took on as the 'music of resistance,' initially in connection with the student protests that marked Japan in the 1960's. Such an articulation shows the powerful role of Japanese desire, particularly on the part of youth, for the America represented by popular music.
Most recently, hip hop has shown the continued attraction African-American music holds for Japanese people, and youth in particular. Hip hop reached Japan in the early 1980s and entered the mainstream with East End X Yuri's million-selling pop-rap singles of the mid-1990s. Its prominence continues to this day, in many cases embodied in Japanese artists who imitate African-American styles and sounds wholesale. Such imitation has been roundly criticized by international critics and commentators, condemned as contextless cultural theft and a testament to Japanese insensitivity on matters of race.
In my study I examine a cadre of contemporary musicians who, while equally dedicated to hip hop, firmly resist such uncritical imitation of blackness, instead emphasizing their own unique musical and cultural innovations. I argue that this transition from imitation to innovation mirrors a broader cultural shift away from widespread deference to authority and towards a greater openness to innovation and change, and is just one way that the work of Japan's underground hip hop artists resonates with the ongoing 'quiet revolution.' Hip hop has encountered a few particularly important ongoing social changes: that from a lifetime employment system to one increasingly characterized by temporary and part-time labor; from a self-declared homogenous society to a multicultural one; and, more generally, from one defined by elite emphasis on social compliance and loyalty to a wider acceptance of iconoclasm and individuality. It is tempting to classify this as the transition from an 'oppressive' system to a 'free' one - from bad to good. But there are complexities and ambivalence inherent in the emergent situation. For example, while the new employment model provides much greater flexibility for individuals and frees them from the past tyranny of the corporate system, it also exposes them to much greater financial uncertainty. The rising sense of self-worth among minorities, for which hip hop is an important channel, simultaneously threatens to transform these identities into objectified fetishes. Individuality is not without its costs. Meanwhile, hip hop is also being deployed in ways that reinforce the old model of deference and authoritarianism, particularly by artists who promote revisionist histories and the revival of militarism.
The significance of hip hop for social change derives from a long history of interaction between Japanese and African-American culture. This history resurfaces in hip hop recordings, as well as in the lifestyle of urban musicians and fans. This dissertation follows the daily lives and viewpoints of hip hop artists in Tokyo and throughout Japan, from some of its most successful to those just starting their careers. It tracks their music-making processes and their practices of cultural adaptation, and places them within the larger context of Japanese society. It ultimately describes how an art form derided as imitative and derivative has come to reflect the very unique contours of the new soil to which it has been transplanted.
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Du, Plessis Irma. "Crafting popular imaginaries : Stella Blakemore and Afrikaner nationalism." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25581.
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O'Brien, Lucy Corinne. "Edward Elgar and English nationalism : imperial, chivalrous and pastoral visions." Thesis, Lancaster University, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.301089.
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This thesis is a study of Edward Elgar as a national figure. and as an icon of English nationalism in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras. Within music history studies, particularly those of the twentieth century, the close relationship between Elgar and Britain's imperial past has led to the subjugation of his ceremonial music in order for a more acceptable national significance, based around images of rural England, to be reclaimed for him. This study suggests that the anxiety over Elgar's nationalism, which led to a canon of 'acceptable' works, has resulted in the neglect of significant influences on the composer that found frequent expression in his music, and which were related to the spread of national character in his contemporary society. Therefore the three main areas of consideration aim to redress the balance by exploring his national and imperial music, the significance of chivalry as a social code for Englishmen. and the spread of a rural nationalism particularly through a popular middle class preoccupation with an idealised vision of the English countryside. In each of these areas the social, artistic and political climate of England are of central importance as they provide a background against which many of Elgar's works. previously considered to be 'unimportant'. can assume a new significance. Thus the ways in which the social contexts can be seen to have influenced Elgar's life and music are discussed in some detail: conversely the influence Elgar hadin shaping notions of national character through his music are also considered. This thesis contends that the national context was of central importance to the professional and personal life of Elgar. and it is clear that he was engaged in a process of cultural exchange: a reciprocal relationship between artist and public that fostered and perpetuated the myths of nation.
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Do, Mimi H. "The Search for Modernity: Literature and Vietnamese Nationalism, 1900-1939." Thesis, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/7068.
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Mondal, Anshuman Ahmed. "Nationalism, literature, and ideology in colonial India and occupied Egypt." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322963.
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Hsiau, A.-chin. "Crafting a nation : contemporary Taiwanese cultural nationalism /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC IP addresses, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9824653.
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Blaylock, David Wade. "Industrialization and images of the merchant in Meiji Japan /." The Ohio State University, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487777901658513.
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Rambukwella, Sassanka Harshana. "The search for nation exploring Sinhala nationalism and its others in Sri Lankan anglophone and Sinhala-language writing /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2008. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B41508853.
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Alzoubi, Mamoun. "Richard Wright's Trans-Nationalism: New Dimensions to to Modern American Expatriate Literature." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1466409579.
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Han, Hongkoo. "Wounded nationalism : the Minsaengdan incident and Kim Il Sung in Eastern Manchuria /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10516.
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Kato, Megumi Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38718.
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This thesis is a broadly chronological study of representations of Japan and the Japanese in Australian novels, stories and memoirs from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Adopting Edward Said???s Orientalist notion of the `Other???, it attempts to elaborate patterns in which Australian authors describe and evaluate the Japanese. As well as examining these patterns of representation, this thesis outlines the course of their development and change over the years, how they relate to the context in which they occur, and how they contribute to the formation of wider Australian views on Japan and the Japanese. The thesis considers the role of certain Australian authors in formulating images and ideas of the Japanese ???Other???. These authors, ranging from fiction writers to journalists, scholars and war memoirists, act as observers, interpreters, translators, and sometimes ???traitors??? in their cross-cultural interactions. The thesis includes work from within and outside ???mainstream??? writings, thus expanding the contexts of Australian literary history. The major ???periods??? of Australian literature discussed in this thesis include: the 1880s to World War II; the Pacific War; the post-war period; and the multicultural period (1980s to 2000). While a comprehensive examination of available literature reveals the powerful and continuing influence of the Pacific War, images of ???the stranger???, ???the enemy??? and later ???the ally??? or ???partner??? are shown to vary according to authors, situations and wider international relations. This thesis also examines gender issues, which are often brought into sharp relief in cross-cultural representations. While typical East-West power-relationships are reflected in gender relations, more complex approaches are also taken by some authors. This thesis argues that, while certain patterns recur, such as versions of the ???Cho-Cho-San??? or ???Madame Butterfly??? story, Japan-related works have given some Australian authors, especially women, opportunities to reveal more ???liberated??? viewpoints than seemed possible in their own cultural context. As the first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, this thesis brings to the surface many neglected texts. It shows a pattern of changing interests and interactions between two nations whose economic interactions have usually been explored more deeply than their literary and cultural relations.
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Sethness, Maria Ángeles. "El costumbrismo pictórico y literario español : de la ilustración al romanticismo /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8292.
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Nolam, Emer. "Nationalism and modernism : James Joyce and the representation of Irish culture." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.315996.
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Kawasaka, Kazuyoshi. "Between nationalisation and globalisation : male same-sex politics in post-war Japan." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2016. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/63172/.
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This thesis employs an approach of discourse analysis on male homosexuality in postwar Japan from the viewpoint of the tense relations between Japanese cultural nationalism and the globalisation/Westernisation, along with the shifts of discourses of sexuality in the United States and the UK. Through analysing the discourses of sexuality in post-war Japan, I will theoretically indicate the historical and political relationship between problems of gender and sexuality, and national problems such as national identity between Japanese and Western cultures, ideal image of the nation, and its modern development. Firstly, I argue the works of Mishima Yukio (1925-1970), who is one of the representative writers in post-war Japan, especially famous for his gaythemed works and far-right political activism including his attempt of coup d'état. Then, I explore the political dynamics of gay shame in Japan, focusing on Togo Ken (1932-2012), a pioneer of Japanese gay activism who had challenged national elections since 1971 as an openly homosexual candidate. Next, I discuss how the AIDS crisis has changed the discourses of sexuality and the sense of national and cultural borders in Japan. I then discuss the Japanese homonormativity in the 2000s, analogous to Lisa Duggan's new homonormativity in the US context. Finally, I analyse Japanese ‘LGBT' political phenomena under the transnational influence of the Obama administration's LGBT-friendly policy in the contemporary Japan, and point out problems under the influences of ‘global' LGBT activism in contemporary Japanese society.
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Lu, Tsung Che. "Constructing Taiwan: Taiwanese Literature and National Identity." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2018. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1248416/.
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In this work, I trace and reconstruct Taiwan's nation-formation as it is reflected in literary texts produced primarily during the country's two periods of colonial rule, Japanese (1895-1945) and Kuomintang or Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) (1945-1987). One of my central arguments is that the idea of a Taiwanese nation has historically emerged from the interstices of several official and formal nationalisms: Japanese, Chinese, and later Taiwanese. In the following chapters, I argue that the concepts of Taiwan and Taiwanese have been formed and enriched over time in response to the pressures exerted by the state's, colonial or otherwise, pedagogical nation-building discourses. It is through an engagement with these various discourses that the idea of a Taiwanese nation has come to be gradually defined, negotiated, and reinvented by Taiwanese intellectuals of various ethnic backgrounds. I, therefore, focus on authors whose works actively respond to and engage with the state's official nationalism. Following Homi Bhabha's explication in his famous essay "DissemiNation," the basic premise of this dissertation is that the nation, as a narrated space, is not simply shaped by the homogenizing and historicist discourse of nationalism but is realized through people's diverse lived experience. Thus, in reading Taiwanese literature, it is my intention to locate the scraps, patches, and rags of daily life represented in a select number of texts that signal the repeating and reproductive energy of a national life and culture.
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Mcavoy, Meghan. "Critical nationalism : Scottish literary culture since 1989." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/23242.
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This thesis is a critical study of Scottish literary culture since 1989. It examines and interrogates critical work in Scottish literary studies through a ‘critical nationalist’ approach. This approach aims to provide a refinement of cultural nationalist literary criticism by prioritising the oppositional politics of recent Scottish writing, its criticism of institutional and state processes, and its refusal to exempt Scotland from this critique. In the introduction I identify two fundamental tropes in recent Scottish literary criticism: opposition to a cultural nationalist critical narrative which is overly concerned with ‘Scottishness’ and critical centralising of marginalised identity in the establishment of a national canon. Chapter one interrogates a tendency in Scottish literary studies which reads Scottish literature in terms of parliamentary devolution, and demonstrates how a critical nationalist approach avoids the pitfalls of this reading. Chapter two is a study of two novels by the critically neglected and politically Unionist author Andrew O’Hagan, arguing that these novels criticise an insular and regressive Scotland in order to reveal an ambivalent, ‘Janus-faced’ nationalism. Chapter three examines representations of Scottish traditional and folk music in texts by A. L. Kennedy and Alan Bissett, engaging with the Scottish folk tradition since the 1950s revival in order to demonstrate literature and music’s ambivalent responses to aspects of literary and cultural nationalism. Chapter four examines texts by Janice Galloway, Alasdair Gray and James Kelman, analysing the relationships they construct between gender, nation and class. Chapter five examines three contemporary Scottish texts and elucidates an ethical turn in Scottish literary studies, which reads contemporary writing in terms of appropriation and exploitation.
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Wood, Michael S. "Literary subjects adrift : a cultural history of early modern Japanese castaway narratives, ca. 1780-1880 /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10071.
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