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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... 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 ...
... Meiji 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 ...
... Meiji government's attempts to modernize the respective industries. From an industrial perspective, iron and silk represent heavy and light industry, and are revealing of the different attitudes that the government had toward each ...
... government official suggested, however, that the spirit of mining be awakened within the general population, or that the government should establish model mining and refining operations to serve as a training ground for private mine ...
... Meiji government would also import foreign technologies with similar intentions, building a rich nation and strong army, but officials largely relied on an artifact's symbolic value in determining its selection. By 1895, however, the ...
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