Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique

Coupling translated primary texts from Japan's colonial era with critical interpretive essays by scholars in Japanese Studies, Reading Colonial Japan: Text, Context, and Critique illuminates the specificities of Japan's many and varied colonial projects and elucidates how the case of Japan, -the only major non-western colonial power-, can complicate and expand our knowledge of colonialism(s).

Author: Michele Mason
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 03/28/2012
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780804776974

About the Author
Michele M. Mason is assistant professor of Japanese literature at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is also the co-producer and interpreter for the short documentary film Witness to Hiroshima (2010). Helen J.S. Lee is an assistant professor of Japanese studies at the Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.