History 222 - COLQ:ASPECTS OF JAPANESE HIST

Topics course. Histories of social conflict, protest, and revolution in early modern and modern Japan. In the early modern period (1600-1867), peasant resistance and protest, urban uprisings, popular culture, "world-renewal" movements, and the restorationist activism of the Tokugawa period. In the modern period, the incipient democratic movements and the new millenarian religions of the Meiji era (1868-1912), radical leftist activism, mass protest, and an emerging labor movement in the Taisho era (1912-1926), anti-imperialist movements in China during the prewar years, and finally, a range of citizens? movements in the postwar decades.

Topic: The Place of Protest in Modern Japan.