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RETHINKING MODERNITY: JAPAN AND WORLD HISTORY
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The course seeks to place modern Japanese history in a global context, with the larger goal of rethinking concepts and definition of modernity. Modernity is approached as a historical process that began in sometime in the 18th century and continues to this day. What is modernity? How is it experienced in different times and places? How should we understand Japan’s modernity in terms of the commonalities and connections in modern experience around the world?
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January 24: Definitions of Modernity
Session 1: Introduction
Session 2: Modernity as modernization
Reading:
John Whitney Hall, “Changing Conceptions of the Modernization of Japan,” in
Marius Jansen, ed., Changing Japanese Attitudes toward Modernization (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1965. pp. 7-42.
Film: Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin, 1936) 87 minutes
January 25: Views of Japanese Modernity
Session 1: Middle East, China and Japan
Readings:
Renée Worringer, Ottomans Imagining Japan: East, Middle East, and Non-
Western Modernity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century (London: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2014), “Conclusion: Competing Narratives, Ottoman Successor
States, and “Non-Western” Modernity,” pp. 251-63.
Takeuchi Yoshimi, Kindai to wa nani ka, in Takeuchi Yoshimi zenshū, vol. 4 (Chikuma
shobō, 1980), pp. 128-171.
English translation: “What Is Modernity? (The Case of Japan and China” in
Richard Calichman, ed., What Is Modernity? Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi
(Columbia University Press, 2005),
pp. 53-81
Session 2: Historians and modernity
Reading:
Yasumaru Yoshio, Bunmeika no keiken: kindai tenkanki no Nihon (Iwanami shoten,
2007), “Joron: kadai to hōhō,” pp. 1-36
Film: Tōkyō monogatari (Ozu Yasujirō, 1953) 136 minutes
January 26: Global Modernity
Session 1: Multiple modernities
Readings:
S.N. Eisenstadt, “Multiple Modernities,” Daedalus 129, no. 1 (Winter 2000), pp. 1-29.
Arif Dirlik, Culture and History in Post-Revolutionary China: The Perspective of Global
Modernity (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011), “Further
Reflections on Global Modernity: Modernity in the Age of Global
Capitalism,” pp. 273-307.
Session 2: African modernities
Reading:
James Ferguson, Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order (Durham: Duke
University Press, 2006), “Introduction, pp. 1-24; “Decomposing Modernity:
History and Hierarchy after Development,” pp. 176-193.
Film: Bamako (2006, Abderrahmane Sissako), 117 min.
January 27: Modernity in Common
Session 1: Japan, the world
Readings:
Sudipta Kaviraj, “An Outline of a Revisionist Theory of Modernity,” European Journal
of Sociology, XLVI, 3 (2005), pp. 497-526
Carol Gluck, “The End of Elsewhere: Writing Modernity Now,” American Historical
Review (June 2011) pp. 676-87(+ intro to the roundtable, pp. 631-37).
Session 2: What, when, where is modernity?
Summary discussion
Film: Tokyo sonata (2008, Kurosawa Kiyoshi), 120 minutes
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