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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:478264275
Author : Carmen Blacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:923527550
Author : Carmen Blacker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:844704118
Author : Albert M. Craig
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350096622
During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age nineteen to study Dutch. In 1858, he was sent to Edo to teach Dutch to domain students. In his spare time he taught himself English using a Dutch-English dictionary. Two years later, he was appointed a translator of diplomatic documents at the shogunal office of foreign affairs. In 1862, he founded a school that is now Keio University. Eager to introduce Western history and ideas to the Japanese, he wrote a series of books, including the bestselling Conditions in the West (1866). In the late 1870s, he turned his attention to the prospects for parliamentary government in Japan. The central government was firmly in place and elective prefectural assemblies were about to be established. He wrote essays on the workings of such a system, drawing on his earlier travels abroad and his reading of de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, and others. A realist and optimist, Fukuzawa assured his readers of the eventual success of parliamentary government in Japan. This book provides the first-English language translation of five essays that bear directly on the development of his thought and its legacy in Japanese culture.
Author : Yukichi Fukuzawa
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231167147
The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872–1876) as a series of pamphlets as he completed his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). Closely linked, the two texts illustrate the core tenets of Fukuzawa’s theoretical outlook: freedom and equality as inherent to human nature, independence as the goal of any individual and nation, and the transformation of the Japanese mind as key to moving forward in a rapidly evolving political and cultural landscape. Fukuzawa called for the adoption of Western modes of education to help Japan emerge as a modern nation. He believed human beings’ treatment of one another extended to a government’s behavior, echoing the work of John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, and other Western thinkers in a classically structured Eastern text.
Author : William Reynolds Braisted
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Enlightenment
ISBN : 0674564677
The Meiroku Zasshi is recognized as the single most important source for thought during the Japanese enlightenment that followed the Mei Restoration of 1868. The men who wrote for the Meiroku Zosshi (Meiroku refers to the sixth year of Meiji, that is, 1873, and zassirn means magazine) were the encyclopedists of the Meiji enlightenment. Trained as Western experts during the reopening of the country after 1853, they introduced mid-nineteenth-century European and American culture to Japan. The forty-three issues of the magazine represent a broad sampling of the way in which this culture was presented. The influence of the Meiroku Zasshi on the nation builders of Meiji Japan was second to that of the writings of the great enlightener, Fukuzawa Yukichi. This crucial work in Japanese cultural history is now accessible to readers in a precise, beautifully rendered translation by William R. Braisted. In the magazine's pages, the Meirokusha writers expressed their views on such concerns of the period as a popularly elected assembly, the separation of church and state, the status of women, economic policy, chemistry, language reform, and the nature of knowledge. Their prose style reflected their modernity--terse, dignified, less artificial than the traditional literary modes. They also translated articles from languages other than Dutch (until that time the only Western language known to Japanese scholars). Nowhere else can one find gathered together such representative writings by the leading intellectuals of the day, many of them former samurai, who fused their country's tradition of practical studies with the humane and useful knowledge of the West. Complete with Braisted's highly informative introduction, this full translation of the Meiroku Zosshi suggests why Japan's modern experience has been unique.
Author : Vera Mackie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521527198
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Author : Scott J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810863194
With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the Western world were soon adapted and translated into Japanese. The combination of the rich storytelling tradition of Japan with the realism and modernism of the West produced some of the greatest literature of the modern age. Historical Dictionary of Modern Japanese Literature and Theater presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature_narrative, poetry, and drama_in modern Japan. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central role in the evolution of modern Japanese literature.
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1402 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429682650
Originally published between 1986 and 1994 the books in this set discuss, analyse and examine: Various word formation processes in Japanese and English Thematic roles, reflexive binding and case marking Complex predicate constructions in Japanese the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan. Phrase structure in Japanese and English
Author : Nanette Gottlieb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429684630
Originally published in 1991, this book examines the process whereby a modern colloquial style of written Japanese was developed in the context of the overall modernization of Japan. The book examines the process whereby this strategic simplification took place in Japan, beginning with a discussion of the background to the problem and the reasons why change was indicated. The history, characteristics and spheres of the four major styles found in documents of the modern period are examined, as are initial moves towards language reform in the fields of education and printed media. Separate illustrations in Japanese script are provided to give an idea of the changing visual complexity of texts; in-text references, however, are romanized except where the use of characters is essential. Wherever possible, English sources are cited in addition to Japanese; where published translations are available, these are cited in order to enable non-speakers of Japanese to follow up references if they so desire.
Author : Julia Adeney Thomas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520926844
Julia Adeney Thomas turns the concept of nature into a powerful analytical lens through which to view Japanese modernity, bringing the study of both Japanese history and political modernity to a new level of clarity. She shows that nature necessarily functions as a political concept and that changing ideas of nature's political authority were central during Japan's transformation from a semifeudal world to an industrializing colonial empire. In political documents from the nineteenth to the early twentieth century, nature was redefined, moving from the universal, spatial concept of the Tokugawa period, through temporal, social Darwinian ideas of inevitable progress and competitive struggle, to a celebration of Japan as a nation uniquely in harmony with nature. The so-called traditional "Japanese love of nature" masks modern state power. Thomas's theoretically sophisticated study rejects the supposition that modernity is the ideological antithesis of nature, overcoming the determinism of the physical environment through technology and liberating denatured subjects from the chains of biology and tradition. In making "nature" available as a critical term for political analysis, this book yields new insights into prewar Japan's failure to achieve liberal democracy, as well as an alternative means of understanding modernity and the position of non-Western nations within it.
Author : Richard Perren
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Japan
ISBN : 0719024587
Author : Bob T. Wakabayashi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0521588103
A comprehensive intellectual history describing the forces that made Japanese thinkers both receptive and hostile to Western ideas and values.
Author : Alfred Owen Aldridge
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874136393
The essays in this volume provide a straightforward approach to East-West literary relationships, in contrast to the marginalized and Eurocentric perspectives that still dominate mainstream comparative literature.
Author : Sangjin Park
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781137548825
This study in comparative literature reinterprets and reevaluates literary texts and socio-historical transitions, moving between the Korean, East Asian, and European contexts (and with particular reference to the reception of Dante Alighieri in the East). In the process, it reexamines the universality of literary values and reopens the questions of what literature is and what it can do. By close reading of texts, it aims to give exposure to Korean literature, in such a way as to attract more attention to the field of world literature and to focus on what kind of relationship they can form and what new horizon of literariness they can construct in the future. This work will help to put the geography of world literature on a more open and just basis, by showing the porous nature of literary migration and supplying the missing links in the current discourse on world literature.
