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Multiethnic Japan

By John Lie

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| Paperback | 9780674013582

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Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiContinue

Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.

Lie casts light on a wide range of minority groups in modern Japanese society, including the Ainu, Burakumin (descendants of premodern outcasts), Chinese, Koreans, and Okinawans. In so doing, he depicts the trajectory of modern Japanese identity.

Surprisingly, Lie argues that the belief in a monoethnic Japan is a postWorld War II phenomenon, and he explores the formation of the monoethnic ideology. He also makes a general argument about the nature of national identity, delving into the mechanisms of social classification, signification, and identification.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 272 Pages
  • Edition: New Ed
  • ISBN-10: 0674013581
  • ISBN-13: 9780674013582
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Pub date: Mar 01, 2004
  • Dimensions: 1419 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Others
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