Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History by Stefan Tanaka

Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History

Stefan Tanaka

305 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts—Chinese, Indian, and proto...

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