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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Vanquished Gods of Izumo

By: Yijiang Zhong

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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Vanquished Gods of Izumo

By: Yijiang Zhong

Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868. Highlighting the role of the god Okuninushi and the mythology centered on the Izumo Shrine in western Japan as part of this process, he shows how and why this god came to be ignored in State Shinto in the modern period. In doing so, Zhong moves away from the traditional understanding of Shinto history as something completely internal to the nation of Japan, and instead situates the formation of Shinto within a larger geopolitical context involving intellectual and political developments in the East Asian region and the role of western colonial expansion. The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan draws extensively on primary source materials in Japan, many of which were only made available to the public less than a decade ago and have not yet been studied. Source materials analysed include shrine records and object materials, contemporary written texts, official materials from the national and provincial levels, and a broad range of visual sources based on contemporary prints, drawings, photographs and material culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147427109X

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9781474271097

Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen

By: Yijiang Ding

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Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen

By: Yijiang Ding

In 1989, most observers believed that China's political reform process had been violently short-circuited, but few would now dispute that China is in a very important transition. Central to this transition has been an extraordinary change in the formal intellectual conception of 'democracy.' In this book, Yijiang Ding presents a multi-dimensional picture of China at the political crossroads. Chinese Democracy looks at the significant change in the state-society relationship in contemporary China in three interrelated areas: intellectual, social, and cultural. Drawing heavily on recent Chinese scholarship, Ding shows that the emergent theory on the dualism of state and society is contemporaneous with a new cognitive and cultural appreciation of the people's independence from state authority. Is China moving toward liberal democracy? Does Western engagement with China contribute economically and politically to this shift? These are the questions at the heart of the book. Which are especially timely, given the recent reconstruction of political regimes worldwide.

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UBC Press

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0774842105

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9780774842105

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Vanquished Gods of Izumo

By: Yijiang Zhong

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The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Vanquished Gods of Izumo

By: Yijiang Zhong

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147427109X

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9781474271097

Book's by Yijiang Zhong

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen

Chinese Democracy after Tiananmen

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan

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