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 and reconstructs indigenous forms of knowledge and local practice related to material change. In doing so, the book illuminates the point where modern notions of development emerged and thus aids in the process of understanding how they achieved hegemonic status. This in turn expands the notion of what development can and should entail and provides valuable pathways for rethinking our relations with the social world and the environment.
This book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Asian development, Asian history and environmental history.
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
Timothy D. Amos is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, Australia.
Akiko Ishii is Lecturer at the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore.
Samson Lim is Lecturer in the History Program at Monash University, Australia.
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