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Foreign employees in nineteenth-century Japan

edited by Edward R. Beauchamp and Akira Iriye

(Westview special studies on East Asia)

Westview Press, 1990

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Foreign employees in 19th century Japan

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Bibliography: p. [297]-304

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The product of research by US and Japanese scholars, this book is an assessment of the work of individual "yatoi", and their contributions to the rapid development that characterized Meiji Japan (1868-1912).

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The Yatoi phenomenon: The Yatoi phenomenon - An early experiment in technical assistance, Ardath W Burks
  • live machines revisited, Hazel J Jones. Part 2 Case studies - North American views: William Elliot Griffis - the Tokyo years, 1872-1874, E R Beauchamp
  • science and civilization in early Meiji Japan - the autobiographical notes of Thomas C Mendenhall, Richard Rubinger
  • William Smith Clark, Yatoi, 1826-1886, John M Maki
  • encounters with an alien culture - americans employed by the Kaitakushi, Fujita Fumiko
  • westernizing influences in the early modernization of Japanese women's education, Dorothy Robins-Mowry
  • principles and pragmatism - the Yatoi in the field of art, Ellen P Conant
  • Edward Warren Clark and the formation of the Shizuoka and Koishikawa Christian bands (1871-1879), A Hamish Ion. Part 3 Case studies - Japanese views: Contributions of Edward S Morse to developing Yopung Japan, Isono Naohide
  • Margaret C Griffis and the education of women in early Meiji Japan, Usui Chizuko
  • american professors in the development of Hokkaido - the case of the Sapporo agricultural college (SAC), Akizuki Toshiyuki
  • engineering and technical Yatoi in the Public Works Department of Meiji Japan, Imatsu Kenji
  • William Elliot Griffis' lecture notes on chemistry, Uchida Takane, Oki Hisaya, Sakan Fujio, Isa Kimio, Nakata Ryuji
  • Frederic Marshall as an employee of the Japanese legation in Paris, Yokoyama Toshio. Part 4 Archival resources: primary manuscript and printed sources for studying the Yatoi - the William Elliot Griffis papers and related special collection at Rutgers University, Clark L Beck Jnr.

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