The Age of Visions and Arguments: Parliamentarianism and the National Public Sphere in Early Meiji Japan (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by KyuHyunKim (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2008

  $56.37

  The Meiji Restoration of 1868 inaugurated a period of great change in Japan; it is seldom associated, however, with advances in civil and political rights. By studying parliamentarianism--the theories, arguments, and polemics marshaled in support of a representative system of government--Kim uncovers a much more complicated picture of this era than is usually given.