Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia (eBook, PDF)

Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds
Redaktion: Amos, Timothy D.; Lim, Samson; Ishii, Akiko

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

By challenging the reader to "unthink" what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study which discovers and reconstructs indigenous forms of knowledge and local practice related to material change. In doing so, the book illuminates the point where modern notions of development emerged and thus aids in the process of understanding how they achieved hegemonic status. This in turn expands the notion of what development can and should entail and provides valuable pathways for rethinking our relations with the social world and the environment.

This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian development, Asian history and environmental history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040409886
• Artikelnr.: 74936657

Autorenporträt

Timothy D. Amos is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia. Akiko Ishii is Lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. Samson Lim is Senior Lecturer in the History Program at Monash University, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Unthinking Modernisation Chapter 1: Between Stagnation and
Development: Kumazawa Banzan's Idea of Sustainability in Early Modern Japan
Chapter 2: Development and Modernity: The Case of the Sorai School Chapter
3: Expertise that Travels: The Case of Japan and Vietnam in the Early
Modern Period Knowing Natures Chapter 4: Changing Midstream: Water
Conflicts and Local Knowledge in Pre-Meiji Osaka Chapter 5: Development and
Nature in the Qing Dynasty: A Case Study of the Fu River Coastal Area,
Sichuan Province Chapter 6: Fengshui Village Landscapes and Windbreak
Forest Belts on the Ryukyu Archipelago: Rural Development of Small Islands
Emplotting Technologies Chapter 7: Feudal Remnants? The Modern Afterlife of
Japan's Homegrown Iron Industry Chapter 8: A Historical Reconstruction of
the Changing Relationship Between Forests and People in Japan: A Case Study
of Hirosaki Domain in the Nineteenth Century Multiplying Progress Chapter
9: Pillar of Tradition Chapter 10: Two Foundational Fictions of Japanese
National Literature Chapter 11: Excrement and Development in
Nineteenth-Century Japan