Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia by Amos, Timothy D.; Ishii, Akiko; Lim, Samson;

Rövid leírás:

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

Hosszú leírás:

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

By challenging the reader to “unthink” what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study which discovers and reconstructs indigenous forms of knowledge and local practice related to material change. In doing so, the book illuminates the point where modern notions of development emerged and thus aids in the process of understanding how they achieved hegemonic status. This in turn expands the notion of what development can and should entail and provides valuable pathways for rethinking our relations with the social world and the environment.

This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian development, Asian history and environmental history.

Tartalomjegyzék:

Introduction  Unthinking Modernisation  Chapter 1: Between Stagnation and Development: Kumazawa Banzan’s Idea of Sustainability in Early Modern Japan  Chapter 2: Development and Modernity: The Case of the Sorai School  Chapter 3: Expertise that Travels: The Case of Japan and Vietnam in the Early Modern Period  Knowing Natures  Chapter 4: Changing Midstream: Water Conflicts and Local Knowledge in Pre-Meiji Osaka  Chapter 5: Development and Nature in the Qing Dynasty: A Case Study of the Fu River Coastal Area, Sichuan Province  Chapter 6: Fengshui Village Landscapes and Windbreak Forest Belts on the Ryukyu Archipelago: Rural Development of Small Islands  Emplotting Technologies  Chapter 7: Feudal Remnants? The Modern Afterlife of Japan’s Homegrown Iron Industry  Chapter 8: A Historical Reconstruction of the Changing Relationship Between Forests and People in Japan: A Case Study of Hirosaki Domain in the Nineteenth Century  Multiplying Progress  Chapter 9: Pillar of Tradition  Chapter 10: Two Foundational Fictions of Japanese National Literature  Chapter 11: Excrement and Development in Nineteenth-Century Japan