A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

Rok: 2001
ISBN: 9780674003705
OKCZID: 110212574

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SMITH, Kerry. A time of crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and rural revitalization. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. xvi, 481 p.

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The events of the early 1930s - a severe economic depression, political unrest, and profound social change - were unprecedented in the history of modern Japan and deeply unsettling to those who experienced them. This study of Japan's transformation by the crises of the 1930s focuses on efforts by average citizens to overcome the effects of the Great Depression and explores the implications of those efforts for our understanding of Japan's passage through war and into prosperity. The countryside's response to the depression was dynamic and innovative. Communities sought to repair the immediate economic harm done to farm families and to find permanent solutions to longstanding flaws in rural society. The author draws on the experiences of the residents of a small farming community in northeastern Japan to illustrate how those efforts, commonly referred to as rural revitalization, affected farm families' economic standing, their relationships with the state, and their attempts to bridge the growing divide between city and country, farm and factory. By revealing the ways in which the state and communities provided alternatives to despair and violence, the study brings us closer to a comparative, grass-roots perspective on this era of crises, and sheds new light on how average men and women addressed some of modernity's fundamental questions.

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