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Author : Norimasa Muragaki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kokai Nikki written by Norimasa Muragaki and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bob T. Wakabayashi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521588102
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (881 download)
Download or read book Modern Japanese Thought written by Bob T. Wakabayashi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-28 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive intellectual history describing the forces that made Japanese thinkers both receptive and hostile to Western ideas and values.
Author : Ellen P. Conant
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824829377
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Challenging Past And Present written by Ellen P. Conant and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during thecourse of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by apolitical event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both thepreceding Edo (1615-1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868-1912) erashave shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creatingan art-historical void that the former view as a period of waningtechnical and creative inventiveness and the latter as one threatenedby Meiji reforms and indiscriminate westernization and modernization.Challenging Past and Present, to the contrary, demonstrates that theperiod 1840-1890, as seen progressively rather than retrospectively, experienced a dramatic transformation in the visual arts, which in turnmade possible the creative achievements of the twentieth century
Author : Masao Miyoshi
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822392488
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Trespasses written by Masao Miyoshi and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trespasses presents key writings of the Tokyo-born literary scholar Masao Miyoshi, one of the most important postwar intellectuals to link culture with politics and a remarkable critical voice within the academy. For more than four decades, Miyoshi worked outside the mainstream, trespassing into new fields, making previously unseen connections, and upending naive assumptions. With an impeccable sense of when a topic or discussion had lost its critical momentum, he moved on to the next question, and then the next after that, taking on matters of literary form, cross-cultural relations, globalization, art and architecture, the corporatization of the university, and the threat of ecological disaster. Trespasses reveals the tremendous range of Miyoshi’s thought and interests, shows how his thinking transformed over time, and highlights his recurring concerns. This volume brings together eleven selections of Miyoshi’s previously published writing, a major new essay, a critical introduction to his life and work, and an interview in which Miyoshi reflects on the trajectory of his thought and the institutional history of modern Japan studies. In the new essay, “Literary Elaborations,” he provides a masterful overview of the nature of the contemporary university, closing with a call for a global environmental protection studies that would radically reconfigure academic disciplines and merge the hard sciences with the humanities and the social sciences. In the other, chronologically arranged selections, Miyoshi addresses cross-culture relations between Japan and the United States, English literary studies in Japan, and Japan studies in the U.S., as well as the organization of urban space and the integrity of art and architecture in aggressively marketed-oriented environments. Trespasses is an invaluable introduction to the work of a fearless cultural critic.
Author : Peter Duus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950372
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering America written by Peter Duus and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this extraordinary collection of writings, covering the period from 1878 to 1989, a wide range of Japanese visitors to the United States offer their vivid, and sometimes surprising perspectives on Americans and American society. Peter Duus and Kenji Hasegawa have selected essays and articles by Japanese from many walks of life: writers and academics, bureaucrats and priests, politicians and journalists, businessmen, philanthropists, artists. Their views often reflect power relations between America and Japan, particularly during the wartime and postwar periods, but all of them dealt with common themes—America’s origins, its ethnic diversity, its social conformity, its peculiar gender relations, its vast wealth, and its cultural arrogance—making clear that while Japanese observers often regarded the U.S. as a mentor, they rarely saw it as a role model.
Author : Emeritus Professor W G Beasley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300063240
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Japan Encounters the Barbarian written by Emeritus Professor W G Beasley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kevin John Weddle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813923321
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (233 download)
Download or read book Lincoln's Tragic Admiral written by Kevin John Weddle and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Weddle reveals that the admiral was the victim of a double irony: although Du Pont championed technological innovation, he outspokenly opposed the use of the new ironclads to attack Charleston. Only when his objections were overridden did his use of these modern vessels bring his career to an end. Weddle exposes this historical misunderstanding, while also pinpointing Du Pont's crucial role in the development of United States naval strategy, his work in modernizing the navy between the Mexican War and the Civil War, and his push for the navy's technological transition from wood to iron.".
Author : Thomas R.H. Havens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400869420
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Nishi Amane and Modern Japanese Thought written by Thomas R.H. Havens and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nineteenth-century aristocrat, Nishi Amane (1829-1897) was one of the first Japanese to assert the supremacy of Western culture. He was sent by his government to Leiden to study the European social sciences; on his return to Japan shortly before the climactic Meiji Restoration of 1868 he introduced and adapted European utilitarianism and positivism to his country's intellectual world. To modernize, Nishi held, Japan must cast off the bonds of the Confucian world-view in order to adopt new principles of empirical scholarly investigation and new standards of self-improvement. Though a Confucian by upbringing, Nishi became thoroughly committed to Western intellectual values in his programs for the new Japanese society. In his roles of teacher, writer, and government administrator, he was influential at one of the most critical times in Japan’s history. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Marius B. Jansen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069124295X
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Japan and Its World written by Marius B. Jansen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognized as an authority on Japanese history, Marius Jansen synthesizes a lifetime of scholarship in this landmark book. Bringing together the series of Brown and Haley lectures delivered in 1975 at the University of Puget Sound, Japan and Its World continues to be a source of insight for anyone interested in the changing ideas the Japanese have had of themselves, the United States, and the Western world during the past two centuries.
Author : Matsuda Koichiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351925555
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Japan and the Pacific, 1540–1920 written by Matsuda Koichiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to capture the rich array of images that define Japan's encounters with the Pacific Ocean. Contemporary Japanese most readily associate 'Pacific' with the devastating war that their country fought over a half century ago. The ensuing occupation realized a situation that this people had striven to avoid ever since the Portuguese first arrived in 1543 - their subjugation by a foreign power. But the Pacific Ocean also extended Japan's overseas contacts. From antiquity Japanese and their neighbours crossed it to trade ideas and products. From the mid-16th century it carried people from more distant lands, Europe and America, and thus expanded and diversified Japan's cultural and economic exchange networks. From the late 19th century it provided the highway to transport Japanese imperial expansion in Northeast Asia and later to encourage overseas migration into the Pacific and the Americas. The studies selected for inclusion in this volume, along with the introduction, explain how the Pacific Ocean thus nurtured images of both threat and opportunity to the island nation that it surrounds.
Author : David John Lu
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563249068
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Japan written by David John Lu and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1997 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the full spectrum of political, economic, diplomatic as well as cultural and intellectual history, this classroom resource offers insight not only into the past but also into Japan's contemporary civilisation. This is a combination of volumes one and two.
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ISBN 13 : 9780395139301
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Japan; Selected Readings written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleutherian Mills Historical Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Manuscripts in the Eleutherian Mills Historical Library written by Eleutherian Mills Historical Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Eleutherian Mills Historical Library of Greenville, Delaware, collects a broad spectrum of research materials to explain the contributions of the Middle Atlantic states to American economic, business, industrial, and technological history"--Fore.
Author : Masao Miyoshi
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
ISBN 13 : 1589880234
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book As We Saw Them written by Masao Miyoshi and published by Paul Dry Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alarming and hilarious as two cultures meet at the court of President Buchanan." - Gore Vidal
Author : Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan). Toshokan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books on Japan written by Kokusai Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo, Japan). Toshokan and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Committee on East Asian Libraries Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Abroad in America written by National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
