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The Satsuma Students in Britain

Andrew Cobbing
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Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134252091

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In the spring of 1865, when Japan was in the grip of a major civil war, eighteen samurai and an interpreter risked their lives to embark secretly on a voyage to the unknown lands of the barbarian west. Their destination was Britain - at the hub of a vast empire. These were the Satsuma students, some of them still in their teens, all carrying orders from their domains to travel abroad. It was an extraordinary and daring expedition. Their experience of life in the west not only transformed their perception of the outside world, but through their diverse activities in later life, had a profound impact on commerce, education and culture in Meiji Japan. First published in 1974, Inuzuka Takaaki's study is still the classic work on the Satsuma students' revealing tale of discovery. In this translation by Andrew Cobbing, further details that have since emerged are also included to give a fresh portrayal, the first in English, of this singular episode in the opening of Japan.

The Satsuma Students in Britain

Andrew Cobbing
The Satsuma Students in Britain Book PDF

Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134252022

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In the spring of 1865, when Japan was in the grip of a major civil war, eighteen samurai and an interpreter risked their lives to embark secretly on a voyage to the unknown lands of the barbarian west. Their destination was Britain - at the hub of a vast empire. These were the Satsuma students, some of them still in their teens, all carrying orders from their domains to travel abroad. It was an extraordinary and daring expedition. Their experience of life in the west not only transformed their perception of the outside world, but through their diverse activities in later life, had a profound impact on commerce, education and culture in Meiji Japan. First published in 1974, Inuzuka Takaaki's study is still the classic work on the Satsuma students' revealing tale of discovery. In this translation by Andrew Cobbing, further details that have since emerged are also included to give a fresh portrayal, the first in English, of this singular episode in the opening of Japan.

Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-1964

Ian Nish
Japanese Envoys in Britain 1862 1964 Book PDF

Author : Ian Nish
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004213456

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Japanese Envoys in Britain, 1862-1964 by Ian Nish Pdf

Commissioned by the Japan Society as the companion volume to British Envoys in Japan, 1959-1972 (2004), this collection of essays on a century of official Japanese representation in the United Kingdom completes the history of bilateral diplomatic relations up to the mid-1960s, concluding with Ambassador Ohno Katsumi’s highly successful six-year assignment in 1964. In all, twelve authors, half of whom are Japanese , contribute to the work. In addition to the nineteen biographies, there are essays on the history of the Japanese Embassy buildings in London, an overview of Japanese envoys in Britain between 1862 and 1872 by Sir Hugh Cortazzi, as well as aspects of embassy life which illuminate some of the factors impacting on the life-style of residents in London in former times, including an entertaining personal memoir by Ayako Ishizaka of ‘A Diplomat’s Daughter in the 1930s’. By way of appendix, the volume concludes with a short history of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Gaimusho) up to the present day.

The British Stake In Japanese Modernity

Michael Gardiner
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Author : Michael Gardiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351757461

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The British Stake In Japanese Modernity by Michael Gardiner Pdf

This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some well-known and some less-known Japanese texts. From the mid-nineteenth century, and particularly as hastened by the spectre of China in the First Opium War, Japan’s modernity was bound up with a convergence with British Newtonian cosmology, something underscored by the British presence in Meiji Japan and the British education of key Meiji state-makers. Moreover the thinking behind Britain’s own unification in the long eighteenth century, particularly the Scottish Enlightenment, is echoed strikingly faithfully in the 1860s-70s work of Fukuzawa Yukichi, Nakamura Masanao, and other writers in the ‘Japanese Enlightenment’. However, from around the end of the Meiji era, we can see a concerted and pointed response to this British universalism, its historiography, its basis in the sovereign individual subject, and its spatial mapping of the world. Elements of this response can be read in texts including Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro, Watsuji Tetsurō’s Fūdo (Climate and Culture), Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s In’ei Raisan (In Praise of Shadows), Kawabata Yasunari’s Yukiguni (Snow Country), and various work of the mid-period Kyoto School. Rarely understood in terms of its British specificity, this response should have something to say to modernist studies more generally, since it aimed at a pluralism and de-universalisation that was difficult for mainstream British modernism itself. Indeed the strength of this de-universalisation may be precisely why these ‘native’ Japanese modernist tendencies have not much been accepted as modernism within the Anglophone academy, despite this field’s apparent widening of its ground in the twenty-first century.

Britain and Japan

Hugh Cortazzi
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Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136641404

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Britain and Japan by Hugh Cortazzi Pdf

The continuing success of this series, highly regarded by scholars and the general reader alike, has prompted The Japan Society to commission this fourth volume, devoted as before to the lives of key people, both British and Japanese, who have made significant contributions to the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. The appearance of this volume brings the number of portraits published to over one hundred. The portraits cover diplomats (from Mori Arinori to Sir Francis Lindley), businessmen (from William Keswick to Lasenby Liberty), engineers and teachers (from W. E. Ayrton to Henry Spencer Palmer), scholars and writers (from Sir Edwin Arnold to Ivan Morris), as well as journalists, judo masters and the aviator Lord Semphill. In all, there are a total of 34 contributions.

Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry

Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
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Author : Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137100139

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Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry by Yoshiyuki Kikuchi Pdf

Anglo-Japanese and American-Japanese connections in chemistry had a major impact on the institutionalization of scientific and technological higher education in Japan from the late nineteenth century and onwards. They helped define the structure of Japanese scientific pedagogical and research system that lasted well into the post-World World II period of massive technological development, when it became one of the biggest providers of chemists and chemical engineers in the world next to Europe and the United States. In telling this story, Anglo-American Connections in Japanese Chemistry explores various sites of science education such as teaching laboratories and classrooms - where British and American teachers mingled with Japanese students - to shed new light on the lab as a site of global human encounter and intricate social relations that shaped scientific practice.

Hugh Cortazzi - Collected Writings

Hugh Cortazzi
Hugh Cortazzi Collected Writings Book PDF

Author : Hugh Cortazzi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134251810

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Dr. David Murray

Benjamin Duke
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Author : Benjamin Duke
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813594996

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This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers College, who was appointed by the Japanese government as Superintendent of Education in the Empire of Japan in 1873. The founding of the Gakusei—the first public school system launched in Japan—marks the beginning of modern education in Japan, accommodating all children of elementary school age. Murray’s unwavering commitment to its success renders him an educational pioneer in Japan in the modern world. Benjamin Duke has compiled this comprehensive biography of David Murray to showcase Murray’s work, both in assisting around 100 samurai students in their studies at Rutgers, and in his unprecedented role in early Japanese-American relations. This fascinating story uncovers a little-known link between Rutgers University and Japan, and it is the only book to conclude that Rutgers made a greater contribution to the development of modern education in the early Meiji Era than any other non-Japanese college or university in the world.

Mooring the Global Archive

Martin Dusinberre
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Author : Martin Dusinberre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009346511

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Mooring the Global Archive by Martin Dusinberre Pdf

Martin Dusinberre follows the Yamashiro-maru steamship across Asian and Pacific waters in an innovative history of Japan's engagement with the outside world in the late-nineteenth century. This compelling in-depth analysis reconstructs the lives of some of the thousands of male and female migrants who left Japan for work in Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia. These stories bring together transpacific historiographies of settler colonialism, labour history and resource extraction in new ways. Drawing on an unconventional and deeply material archive, from gravestones to government files, paintings to song, and from digitized records to the very earth itself, Dusinberre addresses key questions of method and authorial positionality in the writing of global history. This engaging investigation into archival practice asks, what is the global archive, where is it cited, and who are 'we' as we cite it? This title is also available as Open Access.

Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887

Stephen A. Royle
Anglo Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair 1885 1887 Book PDF

Author : Stephen A. Royle
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351737876

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Anglo-Korean Relations and the Port Hamilton Affair, 1885-1887 by Stephen A. Royle Pdf

In April 1885 the British navy seized the small archipelago of Port Hamilton (now Geomundo) off Korea, an incident dubbed the Port Hamilton Affair. This was part of a larger story of Empire and East Asian geopolitics involving China, Japan, Korea and Russia. At the time Britain and Russia seemed close to war over Afghanistan, and taking the islands, with their sheltered anchorage, would deny them to Russia while they might be useful in any blockade of the Russian fleet in Vladivostok. However, even in this imperial era, there were qualms about seizing inhabited territory belonging to a friendly nation, if only through the precedent it may set for others – particularly Russia – to do the same. Thus, Britain stressed that occupation was temporary and attempted to gain legitimate control anyway, through issuing leases. In the event, after much political posturing from East Asian nations, given that the geopolitical situation improved and there was no war with Russia, the British, after assurances that Russia would not take Port Hamilton, slipped away in February 1887. Geomundo returned to obscurity. This book, the first full-length study of the Port Hamilton Affair, is based around contemporary material varying from printed dispatches and government reports to original archival manuscripts. This enables the book’s scope to range from setting the Port Hamilton Affair into its context within the high geopolitics of East Asia through study of the life of the garrison stationed on the islands to relations between the powerless indigenous islanders and their British occupiers.

The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain

Andrew Cobbing
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Author : Andrew Cobbing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134250134

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The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain by Andrew Cobbing Pdf

The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.

Britain's Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868-1912

Olive Checkland
Britain s Encounter with Meiji Japan 1868 1912 Book PDF

Author : Olive Checkland
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349106097

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Britain's Encounter with Meiji Japan, 1868-1912 by Olive Checkland Pdf

During the Meiji Era, of 1868-1912, British influence in Japan was stronger than that of any other foreign power. Although role models were sought from Englishmen and Scotsmen, whether diplomats, engineers, educators or philosophers, the first priority for the Japanese was to achieve a transfer of industrial and technical skills. As important customers, who brought good profits to British industry, the Japanese were accommodated when they stipulated on awarding a contract that their own people should work in office, shipyard or factory. Much new research material discovered in Japan, England and Scotland has enabled the detailed examination of a relationship - with Britain as Senior and Japan as Junior partner - which lasted until 1914. It was on these foundations that Japan was able subsequently to build a great industrial nation.

The Lion and the Eagle

Kathleen Burk
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Author : Kathleen Burk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781408856185

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The Lion and the Eagle by Kathleen Burk Pdf

An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone hand in hand with common interests. In this book Kathleen Burk brilliantly examines the different kinds of power the two empires have projected, and the means they have used to do it. What the two empires have shared is a mixture of pragmatism, ruthless commercial drive, a self-righteous foreign policy and plenty of naked aggression. These have been aimed against each other more than once; yet their underlying alliance against common enemies has been historically unique and a defining force throughout the twentieth century. This is a global and epic history of the rise and fall of empires. It ranges from America's futile attempts to conquer Canada to her success in opening up Japan but rapid loss of leadership to Britain; from Britain's success in forcing open China to her loss of the Middle East to the US; and from the American conquest of the Philippines to her destruction of the British Empire. The Pax Americana replaced the Pax Britannica, but now the American world order is fading, threatening Britain's belief in her own world role.

The Chinese Visit to England 1866

Keith Robinson
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Author : Keith Robinson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781326737665

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The Chinese Visit to England 1866 by Keith Robinson Pdf

2016 is the 150th Anniversary of the first Chinese Government approved visit to England, by the learned Manchu BinChun. The book draws on the diaries of those involved, the Government papers and also newspaper reports from the time to follow his route and bring into sharper focus some of the famous people that he met. The British Government's aims were broadly to try and support the Qing Government as it tried to modernise and thus help it preserve its independence and also to create a future market for British trade. Politically it was a failure, but perhaps BinChun's importance is that he was a pioneer of public diplomacy, and it is these lessons that are most relevant to us today as we once again seek to engage with China.

Okubo Toshimichi

Masakazu Iwata
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Author : Masakazu Iwata
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520326248

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Okubo Toshimichi by Masakazu Iwata Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.