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Loh, Waiyee (2020) Japanese tourists in Victorian Britain : Japanese women and the British heritage industry. Textual Practice, 34 (1). pp. 87-106. doi:10.1080/0950236X.2018.1539031 ISSN 0950-236X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2018.1539031
Abstract
This article explores Japanese women’s engagements with the British heritage industry in the 2000s by reading two recent Japanese texts concerned with commodified British heritage, especially heritage from the Victorian period. Reading these Japanese ‘heritage texts’ reveals that a perceived lack of aristocratic cultural capital, which has grown out of Japan’s encounter with informal British imperialism in the nineteenth century, continues to shape young Japanese women’s avid participation in the British heritage industry. In the second half of the nineteenth century, British merchants brought material goods and the cultural practices associated with these goods to Japan through trade. On the other hand, Japanese officials and students travelled to Britain to learn from British civilisation at its source. This history has given rise to a longstanding Japanese ‘aspiration’ (akogare) to emulate Britain. The Japanese manga and magazine publishing industry in the 2000s reaffirms these sentiments but also exploits them to its own advantage, by channelling young Japanese women’s perception of their cultural belatedness into the buying of both British heritage commodities and the Japanese ‘heritage texts’ that promote these commodities.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Textual Practice | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge Journals | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0950-236X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 34 | ||||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 87-106 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1539031 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Textual Practice on 26/10/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/0950236X.2018.1539031 | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 27 June 2018 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 April 2020 | ||||||||
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