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Popular literacy in early modern Japan /

The focus of Richard Rubinger's study of Japanese literacy is the least-studied (yet overwhelming majority) of the premodern population: the rural farming class. In this book-length historical exploration of the topic, the first in any language, Rubinger dispels the misconception that there are...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rubinger, Richard, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Literacy in early Tokugawa villages
  • Signatures, ciphers, and seals
  • Country culture and the rise of provincial literati in the eighteenth century
  • The nineteenth-century expansion of popular literacy
  • Direct measures of popular literacy in the nineteenth century.