Japan encounters the barbarian : Japanese travellers in America and Europe
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Japan encounters the barbarian : Japanese travellers in America and Europe
Yale University Press, 1995
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  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
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注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-241) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions, and technology that would help them achieve the 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 to learn it, 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. Next, drawing on many colorful 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. He also tells the story of the several hundred students who went abroad in this period. He concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travelers 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.
目次
- Japan and China - Trade and tribute missions, Cultural borrowing
- Barbarian Books - The rejection of Christianity Dutch studies, The military dimension
- Unequal Treaties - The foreign policy debate, Western studies and military reform
- The Mission to America, 1860 - Diplomatic travels, The voyage of Kanrin Maru
- The Mission to Europe, 1862 - The mission's instructions, Europe observed, Investigating and reporting
- Envoys and Industry, 1865-67 - Edo and France, Satsuma and economic opportunity, The Paris Exposition
- The First Japanese Students Overseas, 1862-68 - Bakufu students, Domain students
- From Tokugawa to Meiji - Western advice and Japanese bureaucrats, Students and other travellers
- The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873 - Plans, Travels Reports
- The Fruits of Experience I - Later Careers: Tokugawa envoys and students, Travellers from the domains before 1868, Early Meiji travellers
- The Fruits of Experience II - Policies and Ideas: Wealth and Strength, The nature of society
- Conclusion - Japan and the West.
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