Susan B. Hanley

"A wonderfully original, cogently argued, and very readable book. Hanley provides persuasive answers to some of the largest questions historians have been asking about the relationship of premodern social and economic conditions to the modern development of Japan."—Stephen Vlastos, author of Peasant Protests and Uprisings in Tokugawa Japan

The Hidden Legacy of Material Culture

Everyday Things in Premodern Japan

Joint Committee on Chinese Studies (U.S.)

Arthur P. Wolf

Joint Committee on Japanese Studies

"Based on a conference sponsored by the joint committees on Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.".

Susan B. Hanley

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