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FYS 1046 Eastern Encounters: Identity and Change in Modern East Asian History

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Eastern Encounters: Identity and Change in Modern East Asian History

Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan by David L. Howell
ISBN: 9780520240858

Publication Date: 2005-02-07

In this pioneering study, David L. Howell looks beneath the surface structures of the Japanese state to reveal the mechanism by which markers of polity, status, and civilization came together over the divide of the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Howell illustrates how a short roster of malleable, explicitly superficial customs; hairstyle, clothing, and personal names served to distinguish the "civilized" realm of the Japanese from the "barbarian" realm of the Ainu in the Tokugawa era. Within the core polity, moreover, these same customs distinguished members of different social status groups from one another, such as samurai warriors from commoners, and commoners from outcasts.

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Start with the top line, HF; items are arranged alphabetically by subject (HF Social Sciences. Commerce). Single letters precede double letters. (A, B, BF, C, D ... H, HF …)
Then read the second line, 5387; items are ordered using whole numbers. (1, 2, 3, 45, 500, 501, 5000, 5387..)
Then read the third line, D366; items are ordered alphabetically. Items starting with the same letter are then arranged by decimal number. For D366 imagine D3.66 which would come before D4.
The fourth line, 2004, is the year of publication.

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