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Advertising tower : Japanese modernism and modernity in the 1920s /

On a December morning in 1925, a newspaper journalist reported receiving 25 different handbills in an hour’s walk in downtown Tokyo, advertising everything from Western-style clothing and furniture to sweet shops, charity organizations, phonograph recordings, plays, and films. The activities of adve...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Gardner, William O., 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 260.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Media and modernism
  • Language at the limits: the global situation of Japanese modernism
  • "All forms of poetic literature are destroyed": Hagiwara Kyōjirō's Shikei senkoku
  • Framing modernity in Hayashi Fumiko's Hōrōki
  • Hōrōki and the modern girl
  • Anarchism and imperialism: Hagiwara Kyōjirō's Danpen and beyond.