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054082
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New Delhi, Manak Publications, 2004.
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xx, 529p.
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8178270579
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ID:
179777
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It would be stating the obvious when one holds that developments in East Asia will have a significant impact on world politics. What is less evident is how scholars from East Asia have defined and looked at the nebulous entity represented by the term ‘East Asia’. For this special issue of China Report, scholars from various countries have offered their perspectives on their impression of this region, having a free hand to contribute in their own chosen area of interest within the broad field of East Asia. What follows is a collection of essays that, on a superficial level, might appear disparate. A closer look shows how these scholars unravel the scholarship on East Asia in ways far removed from the dominant Western approach. What needs to be pointed out is that these contributors themselves have had their initiation into the field by benefiting from learning from the West but now contribute to what may be called Asian scholarship, which is nearing critical mass to have its own identity. This attempt by the China Report to highlight new strands of knowledge is an ongoing process and hopefully will add to the stock of knowledge on East Asia.
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064266
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064337
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159342
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The critical role played by agriculture in the modernisation of Japan, well-highlighted in the literature, is held to be a model worthy of emulation by latecomers. What this meant for the poor or the tenant farmer is something that does not get much attention. This article looks at the writings of a poor owner-tenant farmer, Teisuke Shibuya, who maintained a diary in the years 1925–6 in which he had graphically recorded the conditions in agriculture and the kind of life the peasant led. We also utilise a book Shibuya published 60 years after he started maintaining the notes which led to the publication of the diary. Shibuya, who actively struggled to raise peasant consciousness, was articulate and extremely well read, and could hold his own in debate with urban intellectuals. His writings are valuable as they convey the actual life of the peasantry during Japan’s modernisation drive. In Shibuya’s jottings, the emotions and feelings of the peasant who was exploited by the authoritarian state and the landlord system come through, presenting us with a picture that is vastly different from the standard academic writings on the subject, thus cautioning us when we uncritically attempt to learn lessons from the Japanese modernisation experience.
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138089
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For long, the study of Japanese economic history of the prewar period has been colored by the dominant view of the modernisation economists who clearly held an anti-Marxist or a non-Marxist approach. One casualty of this approach has been the neglect of the rich micro level studies and data that are available on this period in the Japanese language. The standard view of agricultural development in Japan tends to ignore or gloss over the various struggles and difficulties the poor peasant went through. This article highlights the availability of diaries and other records left by the poor or the tenant farmers of the Meiji and Taisho periods. It shows how a study of these, along with the macro picture presented by the modernisation economists, completes the canvas and brings one closer to the realities of the prewar period. It raises questions about the image of a smooth and painless transition to modernisation that has been holding centre stage in the discourse about Japan for so long.
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