Alternative Histories of Development in Japan and East Asia: Unthinking Modernization, Recreating Lifeworlds [Hardcover]

Introduction??Unthinking Modernisation??Chapter 1: Between Stagnation and Development: Kumazawa Banzans Idea of Sustainability in Early Modern Japan??Chapter 2: Development and Modernity: The Case of the Sorai School??Chapter 3: Expertise that Travels: The Case of Japan and Vietnam in the Early Modern Period??Knowing Natures??Chapter 4: Changing Midstream: Water Conflicts and Local Knowledge in Pre-Meiji Osaka??Chapter 5: Development and Nature in the Qing Dynasty: A Case Study of the Fu River Coastal Area, Sichuan Province??Chapter 6: Fengshui Village Landscapes and Windbreak Forest Belts on the Ryukyu Archipelago: Rural Development of Small Islands??Emplotting Technologies??Chapter 7: Feudal Remnants? The Modern Afterlife of Japans Homegrown Iron Industry??Chapter 8: A Historical Reconstruction of the Changing Relationship Between Forests and People in Japan: A Case Study of Hirosaki Domain in the Nineteenth Century??Multiplying Progress??Chapter 9: Pillar of Tradition??Chapter 10: Two Foundational Fictions of Japanese National Literature??Chapter 11: Excrement and Development in Nineteenth-Century Japan

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

This book examines the history of development in East Asia in terms of material change and human-nature relations from the perspectives of people living in Asia in modern and pre-modern periods.

By challenging the reader to unthink what modern development is, each chapter offers a case study which discovers al³³