William Wayne Farris
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833251
- eISBN:
- 9780824870119
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833251.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter examines the Japanese economy and society amid political instability caused by war during the period 1450–1600. It first considers the deterioration of shogunate control, beginning with ...
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This chapter examines the Japanese economy and society amid political instability caused by war during the period 1450–1600. It first considers the deterioration of shogunate control, beginning with the Ōnin War (1467–1477) that launched a period of more than a century of violence in Japan. It then discusses the processes of destruction and construction during the Warring States Era (1477–1590) and proceeds by focusing on population and economic growth around 1600. In particular, it explores developments in agriculture and industry that bolstered the expansion dating back to around 1280, along with the boom in domestic and overseas trade. The chapter also analyzes trends relating to class structure, family, and gender relations before concluding with an overview of the final phase of the Warring States Era, lasting from 1560 to 1590, that resulted in a political settlement and brought peace and stability to the archipelago.Less
This chapter examines the Japanese economy and society amid political instability caused by war during the period 1450–1600. It first considers the deterioration of shogunate control, beginning with the Ōnin War (1467–1477) that launched a period of more than a century of violence in Japan. It then discusses the processes of destruction and construction during the Warring States Era (1477–1590) and proceeds by focusing on population and economic growth around 1600. In particular, it explores developments in agriculture and industry that bolstered the expansion dating back to around 1280, along with the boom in domestic and overseas trade. The chapter also analyzes trends relating to class structure, family, and gender relations before concluding with an overview of the final phase of the Warring States Era, lasting from 1560 to 1590, that resulted in a political settlement and brought peace and stability to the archipelago.
Robin McNeal
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831202
- eISBN:
- 9780824869441
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831202.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
China's Warring States era (c. fifth–third centuries BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was ...
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China's Warring States era (c. fifth–third centuries BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was the military text. Social and political changes were driven in large part by the increasing scope and scale of warfare, and some of the best minds of the day devoted their attention to the systematic analysis of all factors involved in waging war. This book makes available a corpus of military texts from a long-neglected Warring States compendium of historical, political, military, and ritual writings known as the Yi Zhou shu, or Remainder of the Zhou Documents. The texts articulate the relationship between military conquest of an enemy and incorporation of conquered territories into one's civilian government, expressed dynamically through the paired Chinese concept of wen and wu, the civil and the martial. Exploring this conceptual dyad provides an alternative view of the social and intellectual history of classical China—one based not primarily on philosophical works but on a complex array of ideological writings concerned with the just, effective, and appropriate use of state power. In addition, the book presents a careful reconstruction of the poetic structure of these texts; analyzes their place in the broader discourse on warfare and governance in early China; introduces the many text historical problems of the Yi Zhou shu itself; and offers a synthetic analysis of early Chinese thinking about warfare, strategy, and the early state's use of coercive power.Less
China's Warring States era (c. fifth–third centuries BCE) was the setting for an explosion of textual production, and one of the most sophisticated and enduring genres of writing from this period was the military text. Social and political changes were driven in large part by the increasing scope and scale of warfare, and some of the best minds of the day devoted their attention to the systematic analysis of all factors involved in waging war. This book makes available a corpus of military texts from a long-neglected Warring States compendium of historical, political, military, and ritual writings known as the Yi Zhou shu, or Remainder of the Zhou Documents. The texts articulate the relationship between military conquest of an enemy and incorporation of conquered territories into one's civilian government, expressed dynamically through the paired Chinese concept of wen and wu, the civil and the martial. Exploring this conceptual dyad provides an alternative view of the social and intellectual history of classical China—one based not primarily on philosophical works but on a complex array of ideological writings concerned with the just, effective, and appropriate use of state power. In addition, the book presents a careful reconstruction of the poetic structure of these texts; analyzes their place in the broader discourse on warfare and governance in early China; introduces the many text historical problems of the Yi Zhou shu itself; and offers a synthetic analysis of early Chinese thinking about warfare, strategy, and the early state's use of coercive power.
