عنوان

China in the Tokugawa world /

شابک

0674117530

شابک

9780674117532

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

China in the Tokugawa world /

نام عام مواد

[Book]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Marius B. Jansen

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xi, 137 pages :

ساير جزييات

illustrations ;

ابعاد

22 cm

متن يادداشت

"The Edwin O. Reischauer lectures, 1988"--Half title page

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

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

عنوان

China in the Tokugawa world.

موضوع مستند نشده

China, Relations, Japan

موضوع مستند نشده

Japan, History, Tokugawa period, 1600-1868

موضوع مستند نشده

Japan, Relations, China

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

0

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Jansen, Marius B

تاريخ عمليات

20160712054548.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y