Japan: Its History and Culture / Edition 4

Once a star of postwar industrial production and methods,Japan has encountered serious trouble with market forces in recent years. Social changes and departures from tradition are becoming more common in this conservative country. The revised edition of the popular work, Japan: Its History and Culture, Fourth Edition, documents and explains these changes. Seamlessly blending current events, politics, and cultural elements, the authors provide a riveting account of a nation often misunderstood by the West.

ISBN-13: 9780071412803

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC

Publication Date: 08-09-2004

Pages: 368

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.54(d)

Series: Japan: It's History & Culture

W. Scott Morton was a missionary to China and a professor emeritus in Chinese and Japanese history and culture at Seton Hall University, in New Jersey.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Foreword by Marius B. Jansen
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Introduction
1 The Origins and Early History of the Japanese
2 The Introduction of Chinese Thought and Culture
Asuka Period: 552–710
3 The Stimulating Effect of Chinese Culture
Nara Period: 710–794
4 The Japanese Pattern
Early Heian Period: 794–857
Late Heian or Fujiwara Period: 858–1158
5 The Rise of the Warrior Class and the Gempei War
End of the Heian Period: 1158–1185
6 Government by the Military Shogun
Kamakura Period: 1185–1336
7 The Ashikaga Shogunate
Nambokucho: 1336–1392
Muromachi: 1392–1573
8 The Golden Age of Japanese Art
1378–1490
9 The Unification of Japan
Sengoku-Jidai, the Period of the Country at War: 1534–1615
10 Japan in Isolation
The Tokugawa Shogunate: Part I, 1615–1715
11 The Winds of Change
The Tokugawa Shogunate: Part II, 1716–1867
12 The Meiji Restoration and the Modernization of Japan
1868–1914
13 Expansion, Liberalism, and Militarism
1914–1931
14 Manchukuo, the China War, and World War II
1931–1945
15 Postwar Japan
16 Japan Today—Economy
17 Japan Today—Foreign Affairs and Political Life
18 Contemporary Japanese Society
Glossary
Chronology
Bibliography
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