Culture and Identity: Japanese Intellectuals during the Interwar Years

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This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture. The essays reveal eloquently the extent to which important aspects of Japanese intellectual life in the early twentieth century were inspired by European mode

"The aptly titled Culture and Identity is a fascinating and important volume covering a period in Japanese history that has only recently begun to receive in English the scholarly treatment it so thoroughly deserves."--Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies