Japanese History: Modern Miracles and Mythologies - ARTS3218
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Humanities and Languages
Course Outline: School of Humanities & Languages
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisiste: 48 UOC overall, including 6 UOC at level 1 and 6 UOC at level 2 in one of the following streams, Asian Studies, History, or Women's and Gender Studies; or 48 UOC overall, including 12 UOC in Japanese Studies language courses
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Subject Area: Asian Studies
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: History, Japanese Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
The course explores modern Japanese History from the imperial restoration of 1868 to after the Pacific War from an interdisciplinary perspective. It focuses on Japanese cultural, social and gender history. In it, you will learn about marginalised groups and movements of resistance; the 'new Japanese woman', café culture and sexwork from the 'roaring twenties'; prewar radical literature; and postwar popular culture. Political history topics include western-style modernisation and its discontents; nationalism and the emperor-system ideology; as well as Japan's wars and empire. A central theme is the ambivalent nature of progress (Japan's modern 'miracles' and their 'down-sides'), and contending representations of Japan and its place in Asia and the modern world.
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