She offers an intriguing genealogy, tracing the origins of the alienation of love from sex and self (soul) in contemporary Japan, and critically examining a wide range of ethnological and popular cultural material. the imperial reign-and the rapid transformation of the ways Japanese people express and practice/idealize love. Ryang demonstrates the connection between the birth and maturity of the modern Japanese nation-state-a nation for which ideology and legitimacy rest on the restoration of the ancient sovereign order, i.e. Examining the discursive representations and practices of love, the author inquires into a process whereby "the national state makes its population into 'loving' national subjects" (1). social functions contingent upon cultural logics of different historical timing in which the modern nation-state plays a pivotal role (2–3). Love-Ryang eschews a rigid definition or classification of love-is not a mere matter of individual preference or uncontrollable passion but a set of complex. Sonia Ryang's Love in Modern Japan is a provocative and timely addition not only to the literature on Japanese culture and society but also to the discussion of the problematic relationship between the modern nation-state and its population.
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