Japanese Marxist: A Portrait of Kawakami Hajime, 1879-1946

by Gail Lee Bernstein

Book Overview

It is the merit of Bernstein's portrait of Kawakami Hajime that he emerges as a recognizable human being, a truly modern figure reflecting in his own life a personal and hard-won balance between traditional Japanese values and the demands of modernization. The heir of a samurai family, an acknowledged authority on economics, a professor at one of Japan's leading universities, an early popularizer of Marxism in Japan, a Japanese Communist on his...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674471946
• ISBN13: 9780674471948
• Release Date: July 1990
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"