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Author | : Emeritus Professor W G Beasley |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780300063240 |
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For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W. G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.
Author | : Andrew Cobbing |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134250061 |
Download The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.
Author | : W. G. Beasley |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2000-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520225600 |
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An authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day and of a society and culture with a distinct sense of itself, one of the few nations never conquered by a foreign power in historic times until the 12th century. 35 illustrations.
Author | : W. G. Beasley |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2000-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520225602 |
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An authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day and of a society and culture with a distinct sense of itself, one of the few nations never conquered by a foreign power in historic times until the 12th century. 35 illustrations.
Author | : Ronald P. Toby |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2019-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900439351X |
Download Engaging the Other: 'Japan' and Its Alter-Egos, 1550-1850 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.
Author | : William M. Tsutsui |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 633 |
Release | : 2009-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1405193395 |
Download A Companion to Japanese History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Companion to Japanese History provides an authoritative overview of current debates and approaches within the study of Japan’s history. Composed of 30 chapters written by an international group of scholars Combines traditional perspectives with the most recent scholarly concerns Supplements a chronological survey with targeted thematic analyses Presents stimulating interventions into individual controversies
Author | : Michael Weiner |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Ethnicity |
ISBN | : 041577263X |
Download Japan's Minorities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Examining the ways in which the Japanese have manipulated historical memory, the contributors reveal the presence of an underlying concept of 'Japaneseness' that excludes members of the principal minority groups in Japan.
Author | : Leonard Hammersmith |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780873385909 |
Download Spoilsmen in a "flowery Fairyland" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An examination of the first 11 US ministers to Japan, exploring the information, expectations and values they took with them and how they shaped US diplomacy with Japan in the late 19th century. It shows that the issue of trade was an ongoing 19th-century problem.
Author | : Helen Hardacre |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2023-07-17 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9004644865 |
Download The Postwar Development of Japanese Studies in the United States Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.
Author | : Helen Hardacre |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004109810 |
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This volume of twelve essays with useful bibliographies, in the fields of history, art, religion, literature, anthropology, political science, and law, documents the history of United States scholarship on Japan since 1945.