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Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan

By James L. Huffman

Book information

Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Year
1997
ISBN
9780824862015
DOI
10.1515/9780824862015
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5182863 bytes)
Pages
583\584
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 16:55:47

Description

No institution did more to create a modern citizenry than the newspaper press of the Meiji period (1868-1912). Here was a collection of highly diverse, private voices that provided increasing numbers of readers—many millions by the end of the period—with both its fresh picture of the world and a changing sense of its own place in that world. Creating a Public is the first comprehensive history of Japan's early newspaper press to appear in English in more than half a century. Drawing on decades of research in newspaper articles and editorials, journalists' memoirs and essays, it tells the story of Japan's newspaper press from its elitist beginnings just before the fall of the Tokugawa regime through its years as a shaper of a new political system in the 1880s to its emergence as a nationalistic, often sensational, medium early in the twentieth century.

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