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T h e minshiishi, or âpeopleâs historyâ project, was part of a larger intellectual movement of the 1960sand 1970sthat sought to construct new representations of the minshii, or nonelite âpeople,â as political and historical agents and to overcome the view that they had been inert and passive objects of rule throughout history.â Sharing some of ethnologist Yanagita Kunioâs hopes of shifting the location of the common people from simply background material, or mise-en-sche for historyâs unfolding, to its foreground, proponents chose to re-present, that is, to render visible and vital, the energy, everyday life, consciousness, and, perhaps most distinctive, the historical agency of Japanâs commoners, including those positioned in what they called the âlowestâ (teihen)reaches of the social formation. In this essay, I wish to argue that the peopleâs history movement ought to be considered a about Japan and the Japanese that cen 0 1998 by Duke University Press. tered on this recuperation of the people as the subject-agent of history. Moreover, it took place in the aftermath of mass opposition to U.S. Cold War policy in East Asia over the issue of the United States-Japan Security Treatyâs ratification in 1960 and needs to be considered in this
positions asia critique – Duke University Press
Published: Sep 1, 1998
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