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Schooldays in Imperial Japan: A Study in the Culture of a Student Elite by Donald Roden offers the first sustained exploration of the daily life, values, and rituals of Japan’s prewar higher schools―elite, all-male academies that prepared a fraction of one percent of the nation’s youth for the Imperial Universities. Rather than focusing on institutional structures, Roden probes the **inner culture of students and teachers**: the songs, games, and slogans that marked dormitory life; the shifting balance of power between faculty discipline and student self-rule; and the ideals of cultivation, loyalty, and honor that linked these schools to both the samurai tradition and to Western models such as the British public school or German Gymnasium. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, novels, and interviews with alumni, the book reconstructs a world in which late adolescents were socialized into an ethos that simultaneously promised meritocratic achievement and reproduced hierarchical ascription, embedding conservative values at the very center of Japan’s rapid modernization. Across eight chapters, Roden traces the higher schools from their disciplinary founding in the 1880s through their cultural flowering in the 1920s, when the concept of **seishun (adolescence)** became a license for philosophical and personal exploration. He examines how fraternal rituals, athletic clubs, and peer loyalty forged particularistic identities, while intellectuals within the schools pushed against conformity, generating a distinctive balance between anti-bourgeois cultivation and nationalist service. Alumni devotion to their alma maters―often stronger than to the universities themselves―underscores the enduring symbolic power of the higher school experience. By analyzing the interplay of tradition and modernity in shaping an elite youth culture, Schooldays in Imperial Japan illuminates the ways education mediated social status, leadership formation, and cultural identity in a newly industrialized society. The result is a critical contribution to both Japanese educational history and the comparative study of elite schooling worldwide. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.

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Brand: University of California Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0520376587
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Social & Cultural
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 23 September 2022
Listed Since: 30 August 2022

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