Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region write by Liu Jianhui. This book was released on 2014. Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region
Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region write by Jianhui Liu. This book was released on 2014. Rethinking "Japanese studies" from practices in the Nordic region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Rethinking Japanese Studies
Rethinking Japanese Studies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rethinking Japanese Studies write by Kaori Okano. This book was released on 2017-08-04. Rethinking Japanese Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Japanese Studies has provided a fertile space for non-Eurocentric analysis for a number of reasons. It has been embroiled in the long-running internal debate over the so-called Nihonjinron, revolving around the extent to which the effective interpretation of Japanese society and culture requires non-Western, Japan-specific emic concepts and theories. This book takes this question further and explores how we can understand Japanese society and culture by combining Euro-American concepts and theories with those that originate in Japan. Because Japan is the only liberal democracy to have achieved a high level of capitalism outside the Western cultural framework, Japanese Studies has long provided a forum for deliberations about the extent to which the Western conception of modernity is universally applicable. Furthermore, because of Japan’s military, economic and cultural dominance in Asia at different points in the last century, Japanese Studies has had to deal with the issues of Japanocentrism as well as Eurocentrism, a duality requiring complex and nuanced analysis. This book identifies variations amongst Japanese Studies academic communities in the Asia-Pacific and examines the extent to which relatively autonomous scholarship, intellectual approach or theories exist in the region. It also evaluates how studies on Japan in the region contribute to global Japanese Studies and explores their potential for formulating concrete strategies to unsettle Eurocentric dominance of the discipline.
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies
International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies write by David G. Hebert. This book was released on 2018-03-08. International Perspectives on Translation, Education and Innovation in Japanese and Korean Societies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies the three concepts of translation, education and innovation from a Nordic and international perspective on Japanese and Korean societies. It presents findings from pioneering research into cultural translation, Japanese and Korean linguistics, urban development, traditional arts, and related fields. Across recent decades, Northern European scholars have shown increasing interest in East Asia. Even though they are situated on opposite sides of the Eurasia landmass, the Nordic nations have a great deal in common with Japan and Korea, including vibrant cultural traditions, strong educational systems, and productive social democratic economies. Taking a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, and in addition to the examination of the three key concepts, the book explores several additional intersecting themes, including sustainability, nature, humour, aesthetics, cultural survival and social change, discourse and representation. This book offers a collection of original interdisciplinary research from the 25th anniversary conference of the Nordic Association for Japanese and Korean Studies (2013). Its 21 chapters are divided into five parts according to interdisciplinary themes: Translational Issues in Literature, Analyses of Korean and Japanese Languages, Language Education, Innovation and New Perspectives on Culture, and The Arts in Innovative Societies.
Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan
Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan write by Aike P. Rots. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively engaged with international organizations devoted to the conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre of public space.
