A History of Popular Culture in Japan, From the Seventeenth Century to the Present

Chapter 2: Floating worlds—the birth of popular culture in Japan
Chapter 3: A whole new world—cultural exchanges with East Asia and Europe
Chapter 4: Naughty and nice—early modern Japan’s culture wars
Chapter 5: Popular culture as subject and object of Meiji modernization
Chapter 6: Cultural living—cosmopolitan modernism in imperial Japan
Chapter 7: Entertaining empire—popular culture as a “technology of imperialism”
Chapter 8: “Our spirit against their steel”—mobilizing culture for war
Chapter 9: Democracy, monstrosity, and pensive prosperity—postwar pop
Chapter 10: Millennial Japan as dream factory

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E. Taylor Atkins, Ph.D.

NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Zulauf 306
815-753-7969

NIU Department of History
Zulauf 702
815-753-6699

etatkins@niu.edu

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