Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji JapanRoutledge, 2007 M11 9 - 224 páginas In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice. Through case studies of the iron and silk industries, Wittner argues that the Meiji government’s guiding principle was not simply economic development or providing a technical model for private industry as is commonly claimed. Choice of technique was based on the ability of a technological artifact to import Western "civilization" to Japan: Meiji officials’ technological choices were firmly situated within perceptions of authority, modernity, and their varying political agendas. Technological artifacts could also be used as instruments of political legitimization. By late the Meiji Era, the former icons of Western civilization had been transformed into the symbols of Japanese industrial and military might. A fresh and engaging re-examination of Japanese industrialization within the larger framework of the Meiji Era, this book will appeal to scholars and students of science, technology, and society as well as Japanese history and culture. |
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... government's attitude toward the adoption of Western technologies and the values which these objects and ideas from the 'civilized' countries of Europe would transmit to Japan. The degree of interconnectivity between the adoption of ...
... government 'modernized' the country through the adoption, and later adaptation, of Western technologies is well known ... government's attempts to mechanize and modernize the silk reeling and iron mining and smelting industries, no ...
... government recognized this basic difference and, although some bureaucrats would overestimate the ease with which industrial iron smelting technology could be transferred, the government's position is well articulated. In his report on ...
... government to action. He stated that mining was the basis of a 'rich imperial nation.' In an effort to awaken ... government's choice of technique and the course of action that would be taken for each industry. Foreign presence in ...
... government's 'universal' technology became fully practicable. Although the historical actors within this study ... government placed almost exclusive reliance on 'modern' materials and the values they embedded. Meiji officials ...
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