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Identity and hegemony in mid-Tokugawa Japan: A study of the Kyoho reforms.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Identity and hegemony in mid-Tokugawa Japan: A study of the Kyoho reforms./
Author:	Chang, Yu.
Description:	417 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1368.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NQ78339
ISBN:	0612783391

Identity and hegemony in mid-Tokugawa Japan: A study of the Kyoho reforms.
Chang, Yu.

Identity and hegemony in mid-Tokugawa Japan: A study of the Kyoho reforms. - 417 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-04, Section: A, page: 1368.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2003.

This dissertation is a historical study of the dynamic interplay between the socio-political reforms and the formation of identity discourse in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Japan. I examine the hitherto neglected ideological dimension of the Ky&omacr;h&omacr; reforms instituted by the eighth Tokugawa shogun Yoshimune (r. 1716–1745), which have been generally understood as an attempt at regaining the status quo of the samurai rulers. This characterization is correct as far as Yoshimune was resisting the expansion of a money economy, which was fueled by rural surpluses and urbanization. However, it can lead to the view that the mid-Tokugawa period (1650–1750) was just a time of stubborn refusal to change into a capitalistic society. Although such a gross characterization is rejected by many, a question remains: “Why it should have been the samurai, and not the farmers or the merchants, who eventually ‘led’ the process of modernization?”.

ISBN: 0612783391

Identity and hegemony in mid-Tokugawa Japan: A study of the Kyoho reforms.
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520 $a This dissertation is a historical study of the dynamic interplay between the socio-political reforms and the formation of identity discourse in seventeenth- and early-eighteenth-century Japan. I examine the hitherto neglected ideological dimension of the Ky&omacr;h&omacr; reforms instituted by the eighth Tokugawa shogun Yoshimune (r. 1716–1745), which have been generally understood as an attempt at regaining the status quo of the samurai rulers. This characterization is correct as far as Yoshimune was resisting the expansion of a money economy, which was fueled by rural surpluses and urbanization. However, it can lead to the view that the mid-Tokugawa period (1650–1750) was just a time of stubborn refusal to change into a capitalistic society. Although such a gross characterization is rejected by many, a question remains: “Why it should have been the samurai, and not the farmers or the merchants, who eventually ‘led’ the process of modernization?”.
520 $a Using a variety of primary sources, I have tried to answer this question by examining how the bakufu leaders readjusted their socio-political relationships with various social groups in dealing with the rise of a money economy. On the surface, the changes of these relationships took shape as institutional and legal responses to this rise. Yet the most enduring effect of these reforms was the formation of an identity discourse of socio-political relationships between the bakufu leaders and various social groups. I argue that the discourse thus created was able to portray different images of these bakufu leaders. By presenting themselves as a “group” of kinsmen to the daimyo, a “class” of moral leaders to the townspeople, and a “team” of bureaucrats to the farmers, the bakufu leaders transformed Japan into a society that was organic yet incongruent in life experience and collective consciousness. Finally, I suggest that, in order to understand how Japan entered an “early modern” phase since the mid-Tokugawa period, we cannot just treat it as a homogenous “nation” consisting of a dominant samurai class and other subordinate classes. Instead, homogeneity must be understood as consisting of a difficult unity of multiple identities of genealogical groups, economic classes, and political teams
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