The People in History
Recent Trends in Japanese Historiography
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3647643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carol Gluck (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 01 |
| Pages | 25-50 |
| Publication date | 1978-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911800139804 |
| OpenAlex | W4230974623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 1 |
In the 1960s a group of Japanese historians responded to the contemporary bureaucratic superstate by embarking on a search for a popular past. They began to reexamine Japan's modern experience from the point of view of the people, not the elite, and with special emphasis not on political events but on social forces and attitudes. They rejected Marxism and modernization theory as alien and limiting and sought instead an indigenous methodology that might better fit the Japanese case because it was derived from it. By choosing topics that suggested the importance of popular energies in the development of modern Japan, they endeavored to enlarge the canvas of social history by bringing the people into it as significant subjects of historical change. Their scholarly efforts have drawn the attention of Japanese within and without academic circles and, as this introductory critical essay suggests, may usefully draw that of Western readers as well
Bureaucracy · Elite · Historiography · Indigenous · Limiting · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
From Representation to Apotheosis
The grass-roots modernization in a Japanese Village
The foreign threat and the opening of the ports
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
Who declares the early modern transition in Japan? Language and subject in a historiographical literature
Japan and its Region
Discourses of the Coming
The Cambridge History of Japan
A History of Japan, 1582–1941
The Meiji Restoration Seen from English-speaking Countries
Takahashi Tomio’s Phoenix
Licorice in Leviathan
Free-Floating Anxieties on the Pacific
Rural and urban protest in Tokugawa Japan
How tojibunshi
Samurai Status, Class, and Bureaucracy
The Geographic Imagination in Early Modern Japanese History
Epistemological Exercises
| Unique citing works | 26 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,61 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 2026 (47) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |