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22 - Modern Art in Japan and Transnational Exchange

from Part III - Social Practices and Cultures in Modern Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2023

By
Asato Ikeda
Edited by
Laura Hein
Laura Hein
Affiliation:
Northwestern University, Illinois
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Summary

The twenty-four accessible and thought-provoking essays in this volume present innovative new scholarship on Japan’s modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, it highlights Japan’s distinctiveness as an extraordinarily fast-changing place. Indeed, Japan provides a ringside seat to all the big trends of modern history. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, to wage modern war on a vast scale, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens. Because the Japanese so determinedly acted to reshape global hierarchies, their modern history was incredibly destabilizing for the world. This intense dynamism has powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan’s shores. Put simply, Japan has packed a lot of history into less than two centuries.

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paintingtransnationalitycolonialismwarmodern art
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The New Cambridge History of Japan , pp. 742 - 769
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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