EAS105H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ainu People, Ethnic Nationalism, Qing Dynasty
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Japan = the nation: we have to think of the nation itself as something very modern even though the nation state denies its modernity, historians are less proficient about asking questions of continuity. Ethnically or defined politically: yellow emperor is not nearly prominent as writing of nationalists. Li liu shows how the meaning of the figure has changed overtime, used politically projects: one is the nation. Tessa mo(cid:396)(cid:396)is uzuki: (cid:862)japa(cid:374) i(cid:374) its p(cid:396)ese(cid:374)t fo(cid:396)(cid:373) is a (cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374) a(cid:396)tifa(cid:272)t(cid:863) 9: modern conception of japan is modern, recent and we have to understand how it arouse, ainu in hokkaido. If you go back to the period, you can see this part was not a part of japanese colony. Language, and how they dress begins to change: assimilation program begins to form, colonialism in korea = start in hokkaido, references we see develops enormous pressure to begin to learn japanese, and abandon their own language.
