The Japanese socialist party and neutralism
The Japanese socialist party and neutralism
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日本社会党与中立主义
DOI:
10.2307/2942439
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发表时间:
1969
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通讯作者:
J. Stockwin
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作者:
L. W. Beer;J. Stockwin
the Social Order in Tokugawa Japan"). The Tokugawa system was not wholly hostile to commercialization, but actually encouraged it to some degree (E. S. Crawcour, "Changes in Japanese Commerce in the Tokugawa Period"). The very authoritarianess of the shogunate had a beneficial aesthetic effect on the \abu\i theater, by freeing it from female prostitution and forcing it, for lack of freedom in matters of content, to turn to art (Donald H. Shively, "Ba!(ufu versus KabukjT). The concept of feudalism itself, as it may apply to Japan, receives the most sophisticated attention yet in the two opening articles of the book. In "The Tokugawa Period and Japanese Feudalism" Joseph R. Strayer admits forthrightly the appropriateness of using the word "feudal" of Tokugawa Japan. He then appraises the long and short points of feudal institutions, as they aided or impeded modernization, finding "its defects . . . more important than its merits as forces favoring change." "Feudalism in Japan—A Reassessment" by John Hall stresses rather the evolution of institutions out of a condition in the sixteenth century that closely approximated the feudal model to something that deviated more and more from it. To describe the institutional changes of the eighteen-seventies as "the abolition of feudalism" is to use more dramatic language than the historical facts warrant. The book signalizes and furthers, the great progress that has been made in institutional studies of pre-Meiji Japan by scholars of the English-speaking world in the period since World War II.