CHIN 2052 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bodhisattva, Kirishitan, Literary Award
25 Apr 2016
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Midterm content, readings are all part of the exams. Abandoned by her family but comforted by her new husband. Agrees to give the child away so he can have a life in america cause it would be too shameful for him to have a life in japan. Growth of urbanization: banks, shops, cafes, ass transportation. Urban culture: consumer goods, mass literacy, proliferation of newspapers, magazines, musical recordings, early films. Abundance of western literature and thought in translation: internationalism and cosmopolitanism. Also anguished youth seeking identity and purpose amidst social change. This was a period of transition, you have urbanization but you also have an identity crisis: many anguished youth who wondered about their identity as. Japanese, what their purpose was how they can modernize japanese culture while remaining japanese. He actually wrote an essay about christianity. Recognized christianity was a foreign religion: kirishitan stories: ambivalent relation to christianity (editors: hostility)
