Collected Writings of W. G. Beasley: The Collected Writings of Modern Western Scholars of Japan Volume 5

ISBN-13: 9781873410554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 448 str.

W. G. Beasley;W. G. Beasley

Opis

Special areas: Bakufu and Meiji studies. This volume forms part of the major new series, published by Curzon Press under the Japan Library imprint, featuring the collected writings of many of the most outstanding western scholars who have been actively writing about Japan and connected subjects over the last half century. Developed in close collaboration with W. G. Beasley, this book contains a wide and substantial cross-section of their writings, thematically structured around essays, including published and unpublished conference and symposium papers, contributions to refereed journals, chapters from multi-author volumes, translations and book reviews, as well as newspaper and more broadly based general-interest articles and commentaries as available. A full introductory section, written by the author, reviewing his association and historical ties with Japan as well as specialist interests, prefaces each volume. Thus, for the first time in scholarly publishing, this series makes available a comprehensive collection of the author's lifetime output (other than single-author volumes) that might otherwise be lost or dispersed.

Special areas: Bakufu and Meji Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction; I: Japanese Foreign Relations in the Mid-nineteenth Century; 1: The Language Problem in the Anglo-Japanese Negotiations of 1854 1; 2: The Basis of Japanese Foreign Policy in the Nineteenth Century; 3: Japanese Castaways and British Interpreters; 4: Sir Harry Parkes and the Meiji Restoration; II: The Meiji Restoration; 5: Councillors of Samurai Origin in the Early Meiji Government, 1868–9; 6: Feudal Revenue in Japan at the Time of the Meiji Restoration; 7: O Political Groups in Tosa, 1858–68; 8: Politics and the Samurai Class Structure in Satsuma, 1858–1868; 9: Japan and the West in the Mid Nineteenth Century; 10: Self-strengthening and Restoration*; 11: The Meiji Restoration in Comparative History; III: Japanese Foreign Relations After 1868; 12: The Nature of Japanese Imperialism; 13: Changing British Views of Japan Since the Nineteenth Century; 14: Japan and Pan-Asianism; 15: Richer and Stronger; IV: Occasional Pieces; 16: Traditions of Historical Writing in China and Japan *; 17: Capturing the Totality; 18: My Life Between Japan and America; 19: Tradition and Modernity in Post-war Japan; 20: Personal Reminiscences of the Early Months of the Occupation

O autorze

W. G. Beasley