Recasting Red Culture in Proletarian Japan

by Samuel Perry and Samuel L. Perry

Book Overview

Recasting Red Culture turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience. Both a political and historiographical intervention, the book offers a fascinating account of the passions--and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824875192
• ISBN13: 9780824875190
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"