Social Protest and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Japan

by Anne Walthall

The author, Anne Walthall, is a widely published authority on the life and culture of the peasantry of premodern Japan. This book is Monograph XLIII in the Association for Asian Studies Series. Eight chapters, including chapters on the historical background, patterns of protest, destructive riots, and the Tenmei Period. 268 pages.

268 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1986

About the author

Anne Walthall is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. She is the editor of Servants of the Dynasty: Palace Women in World History and author of The Weak Body of a Useless Woman: Matsuo Taseko and the Meiji Restoration, among others.