Popular literacy in early modern Japan /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rubinger, Richard, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Literacy > Japan > History.
Popular education > Japan > History.
Alphabétisation > Japon > Histoire.
Éducation populaire > Japon > Histoire.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Literacy.
EDUCATION > General.
Literacy
Popular education
Alfabetisme.
Populaire literatuur.
Plattelandsbevolking.
Japan
Japan.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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