Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era 9780824864033

Detailed and diverse, Proliferating Talent challenges us to rethink a crucial period in Japanese history. The eight essa

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Proliferating Talent: Essays on Politics, Thought, and Education in the Meiji Era
 9780824864033

Table of contents :
Contents
Editors’ Preface
Introduction
1. Patterns of Thought and Action of the Common People during the Bakumatsu and Restoration Epoch
2. The Political Background of Early Meiji Educational Policy: The Central Government
3. Local Politics and the Development of Secondary Education in the Early Meiji Period: The Case of Kōchi Prefecture
4. The Confucian Ideal of Rule by Virtue and the Creation of National Politics: The Political Thought of Tani Tateki
5. Meirokusha Thinkers and Early Meiji Enlightenment Thought
6. The Statist Movement and Its Educational Activities: The Shimeikai and the Seiseikō of Kumamoto
7. The Spirit of Political Opposition in the Meiji Period: The Academic Style of the Tōkyō Senmon Gakkō
8. Thought and Education in the Late Meiji Era
Notes
Glossary
Index

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