The New Generation in Meiji Japan: Problems of Cultural Identity, 1885-1895
The New Generation in Meiji Japan: Problems of Cultural Identity, 1885-1895
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明治日本的新一代:文化认同问题,1885-1895
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10.2307/2052278
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发表时间:
1969
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K. Pyle
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作者:
K. Pyle
The developing field of journalism presented a public forum to Meiji intellectuals. This volume provides a case study of the socially significant magazine publications Ko\umin no tomo and Nihonjin, vehicles for the views of the Min'yusha (Friends of the Nation) led by Tokutomi Soho (est. 1887) and the Seikyosha (Society for Political Education) led by Shiga Shigetaka, Miyake Setsurei, and Kuga Katsunan (est. 1888). Solid work has gone into this study. It is important in itself and for the pertinence of the experiences of Meiji intellectuals to our time. The author depicts the new generation alienated from the Restoration generation. The modes of response to the impact of the modern west by major segments of the new generation, those advocating total westernism and those "in search of a usable past," set the theme. The Japanese were the first Asians to confront the now classic acceptance-assimilationrejection syndrome of cultural borrowing. Similarities with the May Fourth Movement in China and struggles in India spring to mind. Nor is this study without current significance for developing nations undergoing similar stresses. Early Meiji intellectuals asked the basic questions: who are we, where are we going, and most intrinsic, how to avoid obliteration, how to survive. A Tokutomi Soho in advocating total westernism and liberalism was an elder brother to Chen Tu-hsiu. But the early JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES