Miri Nakamura examines bodily metaphors such as doppelgangers and robots that were ubiquitous in the literature of imperial Japan. Reading them against the historical rise of the Japanese empire, she argues they must be understood in relation to the most "monstrous" body of all in modern Japan: the carefully constructed image of the empire itself.
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48 primary booksHarvard East Asian Monographs is a 48-book series with 48 primary works first released in 1959 with contributions by Kuo-chun Chao, Andrew Gordon, and 46 others.
