Splendid monarchy : power and pageantry in modern Japan /
In 1993, Masako Owada captured the world's attention when she agreed to marry Crown Prince Naruhito of Japan. She was widely portrayed as a progressive, Westernized woman about to enter one of the last bastions of traditional Japanese sexism. Crown Prince Naruhito's world was known to be s...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1996.
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Colección: | Twentieth-century Japan ;
6. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface and acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction : Inventing, forgetting, remembering
- Part One. National mise-en-scene : 2. From court in motion to imperial capitals
- Part Two. Modern imperial pageantry : 3. Fabricating imperial ceremonies
- 4. The monarchy in Japan's modernity
- Part Three. The people : 5. Crowds and imperial pagentry
- 6. Epilogue : Toward a history of the present.