Atsuko Ueda

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Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) Volume 1Paperback, 1 June 2021

Language, Nation, Race: Linguistic Reform in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) Volume 1
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Part of Series
New Interventions in Japanese Studies
Print Length
172 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
1 Jun 2021
ISBN-10
0520381718
ISBN-13
9780520381711

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Language, Nation, Race explores the various language reforms at the onset of Japanese modernity, a time when a "national language" (kokugo) was produced to standardize Japanese. Faced with the threat of Western colonialism, Meiji intellectuals proposed various reforms to standardize the Japanese language in order to quickly educate the illiterate masses. This book liberates these language reforms from the predetermined category of the "nation," for such a notion had yet to exist as a clear telos to which the reforms aspired. Atsuko Ueda draws on, while critically intervening in, the vast scholarship of language reform that engaged with numerous works of postcolonial and cultural studies. She examines the first two decades of the Meiji period, with specific focus on the issue of race, contending that no analysis of imperialism or nationalism is possible without it.

Product Details

Author:
Atsuko Ueda
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 June 2021
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.27 cm
Genre:
Asian - Japanese
ISBN-10:
0520381718
ISBN-13:
9780520381711
Language:
English
Pages:
172
Weight:
249.48 gm

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