HIST 4502 - [Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan]

(crosslisted)
(also ASIAN 4452)(GHB) (HA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Next offered 2014-2015.

K. Hirano.

How did the seemingly apolitical realm of popular culture become one of the grave political concerns of the Shogunate in early modern Japan? By investigating the complex interplay between power and popular culture, the course seeks to rethink the widely received conceptions of the political and the cultural, and to theorize the transformative process of Tokugawa society.