The Dawn That Never Comes by Michael Bourdaghs
A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, this book offers the reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan.-
Cadres and Corruption
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The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
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Science and the Building of a New Japan
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From Empire to Internationalism
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Revolution Domesticated
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Republican Vietnam, 1963-1975
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Reconstructing Bodies
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High Lands, Pure Earth
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Empires of Coal
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A Nation Within
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China's Crisis
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Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes
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Mass Vaccination
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China's Philological Turn
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A Medicated Empire
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Electrified Voices
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The Invention of Madness
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Socialist Cosmopolitanism
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Misery Beneath the Miracle in East Asia
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A Displaced Nation
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The The Politics of Sorrow
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Occupying Power
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Dream Super-Express
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Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920-1963
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Accidental Activists
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The Power of Print in Modern China
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Tyranny of the Weak
a strikingly original work of remarkable erudition that is also a rigorous theoretical practice..a book that speaks widely to literary and cultural critics and is also a must read for scholars of nationalism and Japanese modernity. -- James A. Fujii The Journal of Asian Studies Bourdaghs's study offers a fascinating interpretation of the major novels of an understudied but enormously interesting literary figure. -- Chia-Ning Chang Monumenta Nipponica His insightful and informative book has deepened our understanding of a highly influential but sadly still neglected Japanese writer...That said, Bourdaghs has certainly opened my eyes to ways of reading Toson I had not considered before, and he is to be thanked for that. -- Stephen Dodd, SOAS, University of London Journal of Japanese Studies In its originality and theoretical sophistication it revolutionizes both the study of Toson and the study of Japanese nationalism. -- Janet A. Walker, Rutgers University Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
Michael Bourdaghs teaches in the department of East Asian languages and cultures at UCLA. He is the translation editor of Kamei Hideo's Transformations of Sensibility: The Phenomenology of Meiji Literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231129800 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231129807 |
| Title | The Dawn That Never Comes |
| Author | Michael Bourdaghs |
| Series | Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2003-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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