Japan in print : information and nation in the early modern period /

Considering the social processes that drove the information explosion of the 1600s, this is an account of the conversion of the public from an object of state surveillance into a subject of self-knowledge. It shows that public texts projected a national collectivity characterized by access to market...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berry, Mary Elizabeth, 1947- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©2006.
Series:Asia--local studies/global themes ; 12.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppzgf