China And Japan In The Late Meiji Period

Author : Urs Matthias Zachmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134017195

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China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period by Urs Matthias Zachmann Pdf

The first war between China and Japan in 1894/95 was one of the most fateful events, not only in modern Japanese and Chinese history, but in international history as well. The war and subsequent events catapulted Japan on its trajectory toward temporary hegemony in East Asia, whereas China entered a long period of domestic unrest and foreign intervention. Repercussions of these developments can be still felt, especially in the mutual perceptions of Chinese and Japanese people today. However, despite considerable scholarship on Sino-Japanese relations, the perplexing question remains how the Japanese attitude exactly changed after the triumphant victory in 1895 over its former role model and competitor. This book examines the transformation of Japan’s attitude toward China up to the time of the Russo-Japanese War (1904/5), when the psychological framework within which future Chinese-Japanese relations worked reached its erstwhile completion. It shows the transformation process through a close reading of sources, a large number of which is introduced to the scholarly discussion for the first time. Zachmann demonstrates how modern Sino-Japanese attitudes were shaped by a multitude of factors, domestic and international, and, in turn, informed Japan’s course in international politics. Winner of the JaDe Prize 2010 awarded by the German Foundation for the Promotion of Japanese-German Culture and Science Relations

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Eastbridge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 1891936557

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Late Qing China and Meiji Japan by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Signature Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131761251

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Late Qing China and Meiji Japan by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788690168

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Late Qing China and Meiji Japan by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

This book looks at the confluence between Chinese and Japanese history. Focusing on the cultural and political spheres, this volume places those relationships at center stage and presents a distinct new field of Sino-Japanese interactions that, while related to Chinese and Japanese history, has an integrity of its own.

Author : Marius B. Jansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521484057

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The Emergence of Meiji Japan by Marius B. Jansen Pdf

This paperback edition brings together chapters from volume 5 of The Cambridge History of Japan. Japan underwent momentous changes during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. This book chronicles the hardships of the Tempo era in the 1830s, the crisis of values and confidence during the last half century of Tokugawa rule, and the political process that finally brought down the Tokugawa regime and ended centuries of warrior rule. It goes on to discuss the samurai rebellions against the Meiji Restoration, and national movements for constitutional government which indirectly resulted in the Meiji Constitution of 1889. The significance of Japan's Meiji transformation for the rest of the world is the subject of the final chapter, in which Professor Akira Iriye discusses Japan's drive to Great Power status. 'Constitutional rule at home, imperialism abroad', became new goals for early twentieth-century Japan.

Author : Daikichi Irokawa
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691209951

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The Culture of the Meiji Period by Daikichi Irokawa Pdf

The description for this book, The Culture of the Meiji Period, will be forthcoming.

Author : Sushila Narsimhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : China
ISBN : 9788174840172

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Japanese Perceptions of China in the Nineteenth Century by Sushila Narsimhan Pdf

Author : Matsuda Wataru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136821165

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Japan and China by Matsuda Wataru Pdf

This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events in the other country. None of these works has received any sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.

Author : Takao Matsumura,John Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317883944

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Japan 1868-1945 by Takao Matsumura,John Benson Pdf

The history of Imperial Japan, from the Meiji Restoration through to defeat and occupation at the end of the Second World War, is central to any understanding of the way in which modern Japan has developed and will continue to develop in the future. This wide-ranging accessible and up-to-date interpretation of Japanese history between 1868 and 1945 provides both a narrative and analysis. Describing the major changes that took place in Japanese political, economic and social life during this period, it challenges widely-held views about the uniqueness of Japanese history and the homogeneity of Japanese society.

Author : Marius B. Jansen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0674117530

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China in the Tokugawa World by Marius B. Jansen Pdf

This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the early modern era. This familiar story of seclusion, argues master historian Marius B. Jansen, results from viewing the period solely in terms of Japan's ties with the West, at the expense of its relationship with closer Asian neighbors. Taking as his focus the port of Nagasaki and its thriving trade with China in the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Jansen not only corrects this misperception but offers an important analysis of the impact of the China trade on Japan's cultural, economic, and political life. Creating a vivid portrait of a city that lived on and for foreign trade, the author details Nagasaki's pivotal role in importing luxury goods for a growing Japanese market whose elite wanted more of everything that ships from China could bring. Silk, sugar, and ginseng were among the cargoes brought to Nagasaki as well as books that, by the late Tokugawa period, signaled the dangers of Western expansionism. The junks from China brought people as well as goods, and the author provides clear evidence of the influence of Chinese expatriates and visitors on Japanese religion, law, and art. Japan's intellectuals prided themselves on their full participation in the cultural milieu of the continental mainland, and for them China represented an ideal land of sages and tranquility. But gradually China came to represent, instead, a metaphor for the "other", as Japan's quest for a national identity intensified. Among the Japanese, a new image of their nation was beginning to emerge: a Japan superior to Asia in general and to China in particular.

Author : Akira Iriye
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0674118383

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China and Japan in the Global Setting by Akira Iriye Pdf

The relationship between China and Japan remains among the most significant of all the worldâe(tm)s bilateral affairsâe"yet it is also the most tortured and the least understood. Akira Iriye adds brilliant clarity to the past century of Chineseâe"Japanese interactions in this masterful interpretive survey. Placing the relationship within its global context, he outlines three distinct periods in the history of these Asian giants. From the 1880s to World War I, the two nations struggled for power. Armaments, war strategies, and security measures played pivotal roles, reflecting the importance 0f military calculations in a world dominated by Western governments. In the second period, that between the two World Wars, Iriye illuminates the dominant role of culture and the stress on internationalism. Chinaâe(tm)s continuing literary influence, an exchange of ideas and students reforms such as Japanâe(tm)s Taisho democracy and Chinaâe(tm)s May Fourth movement, and both nationsâe(tm) bid for racial equality in the West profoundly affected these interwar years. The third period reaches from the end of World War II through the present day, and is characterized by exchanges of an economic nature: trade, shipping, investment, and emigration. The author discusses the results of Chinaâe(tm)s civil war, the rise and decline 0f the Cold War in the West, and the cultural and ecological problems brought by Japanâe(tm)s spiraling economic development. But economic ties remain deeply entwined with cultural concerns, and ultimately, Iriye stresses, the future of China and Japan depends on the successful cultural interdependence of what may be the most significant pair of countries in the world today.

Author : Yoda
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004644830

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The Foundations of Japan's Modernization by Yoda Pdf

Tracing and evaluating the development in the history of Japanese culture and society that permits Japan's rapid and continuing modernization, Professor Yoda provides a new and original approach to the modernization of Japan. He starts from the assumption that Japan was better equipped for modernization because pre-modern Japan had already started to abandon Confucian influences. In his account of modernization during the Meiji-period he focuses on general patterns inherent in Japanese culture and society enabling Japan to integrate foreign elements without having to follow foreign models slavishly. "Patterns in culture", such as the Japanese preference for juxtaposing the new and the ancient, are contrasted with China's preference for discarding past institutions in revolutionary processes. The transferability of paradigms such as "absolutism" is accepted with some modifications. In the major descriptive part of the work, the history of economic, political, institutional modernization is presented on the basis of quotations from original Japanese (and Chinese) sources, arranged within the methodological framework of universal historical concepts, indigenous cultural patterns and specific conditions in both countries. The book is composed of two articles previously published in Japanese and Chinese, two new chapters written especially for the volume, and background information provided by Professor Radtke.

Author : Elise K. Tipton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0415185386

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Modern Japan by Elise K. Tipton Pdf

Ranging from the Tokugwa period to the present day, this text provides a concise and fascinating introduction to the social, cultural and political history of modern Japan. Tipton covers political and economic developments and shows how they relate to social themes and developments. Her survey covers traditional political history as well as areas growing in interest: gender issues, labor conditions and ethnic minorities.

Author : Noriko Kamachi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4903059

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Reform in China by Noriko Kamachi Pdf

Author : E. Herbert Norman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X000125278

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Japan's Emergence as a Modern State by E. Herbert Norman Pdf

Eminent Japanologist E. Herbert Norman (1909-57) published this study of the Meiji period (1868-1912)--which formed the roots of modern Japan--in 1940 (Institute of Pacific Relations, New York). The study considers the decay of feudalism, the rise of industrialism, and how the elite maintained social control. Sixty years later, its value and interest endure; and it is reprinted here with 10 short essays from Canadian, Japanese, and American scholars discussing E.H. Norman's life and work. Woods (international studies, U. of Northern British Columbia) provides a preface and introduction. Canadian card order number: C00-910733-9. c. Book News Inc.