Japan in Print~Mary Elizabeth Berry~Information & Nation in Early Modern Period

Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period. By Mary Elizabeth Berry. Published by University of California Press, 2006
Japan in Print shows 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.
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