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It is the merit of Bernstein's portrait of Kawakami Hajime that he emerges as a recognizable human being, a truly modern figure reflecting in his own life a personal and hard-won balance between traditional Japanese values and the demands of modernization. The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his own unique terms, and, finally, the author of an autobiography that is a classic of modern Japanese literature, Kawakami Hajime is an important figure in the history of modern Japan. At each stage of Kawakami's winding path to Marxism--from patriotic nationalist to academic Marxist to revolutionary Communist--his concern for the ethical and economic problems that emerged in the course of Japan's astonishingly rapid industrialization dominated his consciousness. Bernstein provides a portrait of Kawakami's complex personality as well as an elegantly shaped narrative of the context and content of Japanese left-wing politics in the 1920s, and she makes plain the kinds of cultural conflict that modernization, in its several varieties, bequeathed to Japanese intellectuals.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Japanese Marxist
• Subtitle: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946
• Author: Gail Lee Bernstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 238
• EAN: 9780674471948
• ISBN: 0674471946
• ID: 04636153
• Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
• Weight: 327 g
• Dimensions: 223 × 152 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 1990

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