Paradigms of development
British perspectives on social and economic change in Japan, 1900–41
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6194602 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Charrier (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 183-197 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0955-5803 • E-ISSN: 1469-932X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09555800020004011 |
| OpenAlex | W2017775530 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 21 |
The rapid industrialization and modernization of Japan in the first decades of the twentieth century preceded both the creation of 'development studies' as an academic sub-discipline and popular awareness in the West of development issues. Japanese achievements were therefore not analysed at the time according to specific expectations or models of development, as would be the case today, but rather were interpreted in the context of more general Western concepts such as 'civilization', 'modernization', and 'progress'. As Japan was the first non-Western country to adjust its economy and society successfully to modern modes of production, this process of assessing the changes taking place in Japan generated ideas that represented some of the first Western interpretations of non-Western development. This paper excavates some of these by sampling a broad variety of British contemporary source materials, including newsreels and radio broadcasts. It concludes that the process of interpreting Japanese social and economic change between 1900 and 1941 led to the creation of a number of paradigms of non-Western development. Two of the most important of these were the Darwinist-inspired idea of evolutionary development; and revolutionary development, which was posited as the opposite of the concept of natural progress
Civilization · Economics · Economy · Industrialisation · Modernization theory · Political science · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Western culture · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
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| Highly cited | No |
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