Japan, a comparative view /
edited by Albert M. Craig.
- 437 pages ; 25 cm
"Based on a conference sponsored by the Joint Committee on Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.".
Includes bibliographical references and index.
On foreign borrowing / Marius B. Jansen -- Tokyo and London: comparative conceptions of the city / Henry D. Smith II -- Response to the West: the Korean and Japanese patterns / Seizaburo Sato -- Nation-building in modern East Asia: Early Meiji (1868-1890) and Mao's China (1949-1971) / Ezra F. Vogel -- Love and death in the early modern novel: America and Japan / Takehiko Noguchi -- Uchimura Kanzō: Japanese Christianity in comparative perspective / Takeo Doi -- Cultural differences in family socialization: a psychocultural comparison of Chinese and Japanese / George Devos, Lizabeth Hauswald, Orin Borders -- Pre-industrial landholding patterns in Japan and England / Kozo Yamamura -- Industrial relations in Japan and elsewhere / R.P. Dore -- Factory life in Japan and China today / John C. Pelzel.
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