{"product_id":"japan-in-print-information-and-nation-in-the-early-modern-period-volume-12-paperback","title":"Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period Volume 12 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Elizabeth Berry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Grafton\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such as agronomy, medicine, gastronomy, commerce, travel, and entertainment. They subsequently circulated their findings through a variety of commercially printed texts: maps, gazetteers, family encyclopedias, urban directories, travel guides, official personnel rosters, and instruction manuals for everything from farming to lovemaking. In this original and gracefully written book, Mary Elizabeth Berry considers the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s. Inviting readers to examine the contours and meanings of this transformation, Berry provides a fascinating account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJapan in Print \u003c\/i\u003eshows how, as investigators collected and disseminated richly diverse data, they came to presume in their audience a standard of cultural literacy that changed anonymous consumers into an \"us\" bound by common frames of reference. This shared space of knowledge made society visible to itself and in the process subverted notions of status hierarchy. Berry demonstrates that the new public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by universal access to markets, mobility, sociability, and self-fashioning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyone interested in the history of media and communications should read Beth Berry's extraordinary book. Learned, lucid, and lively, it has much to teach students of premodern societies in Europe and elsewhere.--Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eJapan in Print\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Elizabeth Berry crisply condenses a remarkable amount of primary research on difficult and little-known materials, and it interprets those materials in a highly original framework. The scholarship is superb, and the writing is as masterful as the research. Anyone interested in East Asian cultural production will find this compelling reading.\"--K舐en E. Wigen, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a very important book, not only for its insights into a vast body of previously overlooked texts, but also for its methodology. While historians have known that early modern Japan produced maps, for example, no one has heretofore compared them to their medieval predecessors or examined them for what they say about an emerging Japanese cartographic imagination. This is a highly original work, and it will change the field.\"--Anne Walthall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Elizabeth Berry\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of Civil War in Kyoto\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press, 1994) and \u003ci\u003eHideyoshi\u003c\/i\u003e (1982).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 342\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.91 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52630894936371,"sku":"9780520254176","price":69.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/blpESNvccr9780520254176.webp?v=1762167310","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/japan-in-print-information-and-nation-in-the-early-modern-period-volume-12-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}