[PDF] Family Life In Japan 1967 eBook

Author : Gail Lee Bernstein
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2005-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0520939425

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In this powerful and evocative narrative, Gail Lee Bernstein vividly re-creates the past three centuries of Japanese history by following the fortunes of a prominent Japanese family over fourteen generations. The first of its kind in English, this book focuses on Isami, the eleventh generation patriarch and hereditary village head. Weaving back and forth between Isami's time in the first half of the twentieth century and his ancestors' lives in the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, Bernstein uses family history to convey a broad panoply of social life in Japan since the late 1600s. As the story unfolds, she provides remarkable details and absorbing anecdotes about food, famines, peasant uprisings, agrarian values, marriage customs, child-rearing practices, divorces, and social networks. Isami's House describes the role of rural elites, the architecture of Japanese homes, the grooming of children for middle-class life in Tokyo, the experiences of the Japanese in Japan's wartime empire and on the homefront, the aftermath of the country's defeat, and, finally, the efforts of family members to rebuild their lives after the Occupation. The author's forty-year friendship with members of the family lends a unique intimacy to her portrayal of their history. Readers come away with an inside view of Japanese family life, a vivid picture of early modern and modern times, and a profound understanding of how villagers were transformed into urbanites and what was gained, and lost, in the process.

Author : Jean Cuisenier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3110802384

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No detailed description available for "The family life cycle in European societies".

Author : Franklin Ng
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Asian Americans
ISBN : 9780815326915

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The United States has seen several anti-Asian movements, as evidenced by immigration policies, naturalization laws, state and local statutes, and acts of violence. In recent years, Asian Americans have mobilized against prejudice and discrimination, organizing media groups and panethnic coalitions to achieve greater political effectiveness. These essays address recent issues of interethnic relations and conflict and politics in Asian American communities, ranging from the Japanese American redress movement for unjustified World War II internment, Japan-bashing, the model minority stereotype, resistance to urban renewal, interethnic conflicts with other groups, Asian American politics, Asian American panethnicity, and involvement in ancestral homeland politics.

Author : Merry White
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2002-09-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780520217546

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Are Japanese families in crisis? In this study, Merry Isaacs White looks back at two key moments of 'family making' in the past hundred years - the Meiji era and postwar period - to see how models for the Japanese family have been constructed.