The Modernizer as a Special Case
Japanese Factory Legislation, 1882-1911
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2106805 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R P Dore (London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 433-450 |
| Publication date | 1969-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500005508 |
| OpenAlex | W2101663621 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 1 |
The 'modernizer' is a special species of the genus 'innovator' and one which only in the last century has appeared in large numbers on the human scene. There have, to be sure, been groups and individuals at many moments in world history who would qualify under the definition of the modernizer which I propose to use: 'one who seeks the transformation of his own society or segments of it in imitation of models drawn from another country or countries'. Those Japanese court officials of the seventh century who tried to remould their country on the model of T'ang China are a case in point, and one could probably find many examples on the fringes of the great empires of the past. But it is only in the last century of Western colonialism and rapid technological change that this has become a world-wide phenomenon. It is also only in the last century that the doctrine of human progress has achieved such implicit world-wide acceptance that the imitated models have been seen not simply as 'superior' but also as 'more advanced'-further ahead, that is, in some imputed scale of linear progressive development. The consciousness of backwardness, the concept of underdevelopment, are relatively new
Backwardness · China · Colonialism · Development economics · Doctrine · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Factory (object-oriented programming) · Great Divergence · Legislation · Phenomenon · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Underdevelopment · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy
Strategies of legitimizing cultural change
The foreign threat and the opening of the ports
Toward managed flexibility
The Meiji Restoration
Meiji political institutions
Japan in the early nineteenth century
The Tempō crisis
Japan's turn to the west
Late Tokugawa culture and thought
Opposition movements in early Meiji, 1868–1885
Japan's drive to great-power status
Economic change in the nineteenth century
The Institutionalisation of Policy Consultation in Japan
Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan
The Cambridge History of Japan
The Meiji Restoration
Japan in the World of Welfare Capitalism
Law and Society
| Citations per year | 0.32 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1970 - 2008 (39) |
| Highly cited | No |