Inventing Medieval Japan: The History and Politics of National Identity
Inventing Medieval Japan: The History and Politics of National Identity
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创造中世纪的日本：国家认同的历史和政治
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10.1177/097194589800100104
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发表时间：
1998
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T. Keirstead
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T. Keirstead
与其他亚洲国家的情况相反，日本公众欣然接受了日本已经进入中世纪的概念。在明治时期，中世纪也许是最欧洲化的时代很容易本土化。对这一过程的描述强调了日本希望效仿西方的愿望。本文分析了第一批日本中世纪学者的工作，认为更多的是危在旦夕。通过宣称日本处于中世纪时期，历史学家提出了两个对塑造现代日本身份至关重要的主张。通过将现代国家的根源定位于中世纪，历史学家允许日本可能加入西方，同时保持典型的日本。其次，这个时代为日本提供了一个与亚洲其他国家不同的起点：从古代到中世纪的日本转变，作为一种超越中国及其被高估的文化产品的举动，是一种从文化到历史、从东方到现代的转变。
In contrast to the situation in other Asian nations, the Japanese public readily accepted the notion that Japan had had a Middle Age. In the Meiji period, the medieval—perhaps the most European epoch—was easily indigenised. Accounts of this process emphasise Japan's desire to pattern itself after the West. Analysing the work of the first Japanese medievalists, this article argues that more was at stake. By claiming for Japan a medieval era, historians made two further claims that were crucial to the project of fashioning a modern, Japanese identity. By locating the roots of the modern nation in the Middle Ages, historians allowed that Japan might join the West while remaining quintessentially Japanese. And, second, the era provides Japan's point of departure from the rest of Asia: the transition from ancient to medieval Japan, as a move beyond China and its overvalued cultural products, is a move from the cultural to the historical, from the oriental to the modern.