Review:
"Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes is an indispensable source for anyone wishing to know--or teach--about Japan's traumatic emergence as a modern nation. Professor Hane's sympathy for the great number of individuals who were ground beneath the wheels of 'progress' is apparent on every page, and his ability to give vibrant and compelling voice to those usually dismissed as voiceless is extraordinary."
Peasants, Rebels, Women, and Outcastes is an indispensable source for anyone wishing to know--or teach--about Japan's traumatic emergence as a modern nation. Professor Hane's sympathy for the great number of individuals who were ground beneath the wheels of 'progress' is apparent on every page, and his ability to give vibrant and compelling voice to those usually dismissed as voiceless is extraordinary.--John W. Dower, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Embracing Defeat
Synopsis:
This social history uses diaries, memoirs, fiction, trial testimony, personal recollections, and eyewitness accounts to weave a tale of what ordinary Japanese endured throughout their country's era of booming economic growth. Rescuing vivid, often wrenching accounts of peasants, miners, textile workers, rebels, and prostitutes, Mikiso Hane forces us to see Japan's modern century (from the beginnings of contact with the West to the outset of World War II) through fresh eyes. In doing so, he mounts a challenge to the success story of Japan's economic miracle.
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