The Japanese discovery of Europe : Honda Toshiaki and other discoverers, 1720-1798

Keene provides a fascinating account of Japanese views of what Europe might be like based on emerging understanding of European knowledge and technology. Before American gunships forced Japan open and the Meiji "restoration" embarked on a program of rapid industrialization (and militarizat...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keene, Donald
Format: Book
Language:Undetermined
Published: London Routledge and K. Paul 1952
Subjects:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Institutions: Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ
LEADER 01294nam a2200229Ia 4500
001 CTU_109963
008 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d
082 |a 327.52 
082 |b K26 
100 |a Keene, Donald 
245 4 |a The Japanese discovery of Europe : 
245 0 |b Honda Toshiaki and other discoverers, 1720-1798 
245 0 |c Donald Keene 
260 |a London 
260 |b Routledge and K. Paul 
260 |c 1952 
520 |a Keene provides a fascinating account of Japanese views of what Europe might be like based on emerging understanding of European knowledge and technology. Before American gunships forced Japan open and the Meiji "restoration" embarked on a program of rapid industrialization (and militarization), there was a base of thought on trying to adapt what seemed useful from the west in ways compatible with Japanese conceptions of the essence of Japaneseness. Keene's classic book provides valuable background to understanding the rapid "modernization" and militarism of the late-19th-century (with successful wars with first China, then with Russia just before and just after the turn of the 20th century). 
650 |a Japan 
650 |x Relations 
650 |z Europe 
904 |i Năm 
980 |a Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ