Based in part on the author's first-hand experience during his diplomatic postings to Tokyo and Bonn (1984-93), and supported by significant primary research, this parallel study of the post-war 'resurrection' of two defeated nations provides a striking new and insightful analysis into the nature of Germany and Japan's recovery - highlighting in particular the shared cultural, linguistic, moral and technological factors that were essential for this 'phoenix' phenomenon to take place. Indeed, it is his in-depth investigation into the shared philosophical tradition of renewal, preserved and...

We begin this classic reprint series with the publication of Grammatika man'chzhurskogo iazyka (A Grammar of the Manchu Language, 1879) by Ivan Il'ich Zakharov. Despite the fact that a number of grammars, sketches and textbooks of the Classical Manchu language appeared in the twentieth century, Zakharov's grammar remains an important contribution to the study of the language and is frequently consulted by specialists. Unfortunately, in contrast to another major contribution by Zakharov, Polnyi man'chzhursko-russkii slovar' (A Complete Manchu- Russian Dictionary, 1875), his Manchu Grammar was...