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Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
HSY2220
Japan: 1800 to the present
Proposed to be offered next in 1998
Lincoln Li
8 points + Two lectures and one tutorial per week + Prerequisites: a
first-year sequence in history or Japanese studies
Synopsis This subject may be used to form part of a history or Japanese
studies sequence. The subject charts the development of a modern industrial
state and society in nineteenth and twentieth-century Japan. Key issues studied
include questions of tradition and modernity, the evolution of national
marketing networks in Tokugawa times, the Meiji restoration, Westernisation,
conservative revival in the 1890s, Taisho democracy, militarism, the building
of a capitalist industrial economy, the occupation period, and Japan's rise as
an economic superpower.
Assessment Written (4000 words): 50% + Examination (2 hours): 40% +
Class participation/attendance: 10%
Prescribed texts
- Wray H and Conroy H (eds) Japan examined: Perspectives on modern
Japanese history 1983
Recommended texts
- Craig A M Japan: A comparative view Princeton, 1979
- Halliday J A political history of Japanese capitalism Pantheon, 1975
- Hane M Modern Japan: A historical survey Westview, 1986
- Hunter J E Concise dictionary of modern Japanese history U
California P, 1984
- T Najita Japan: The intellectual foundations of modern Japanese politics
1974-1980 U Chicago P
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