Stefan Tanaka examines how late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese historians created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. He argues that the Japanese attempted to use a variety of pasts--Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese--to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.
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"There is much of value about modern Japanese thought and culture to be learned from this well-crafted book." -- George M. Wilson, American Historical Review
"There is no other book in English that approaches the sophistication of [Tanaka's] analysis of modern Japanese historiography." -- Takashi Fujitani, Journal of Japanese Studies
"[A] sophisticated presentation. . . . Tanaka shows a similar relation between Japan's construction of its Orient, the Far East as Europe knows it, and Japanese imperialism." -- Carol Gluck, Times Literary Supplement
"There is no other book in English that approaches the sophistication of [Tanaka's] analysis of modern Japanese historiography." -- Takashi Fujitani, Journal of Japanese Studies
"[A] sophisticated presentation. . . . Tanaka shows a similar relation between Japan's construction of its Orient, the Far East as Europe knows it, and Japanese imperialism." -- Carol Gluck, Times Literary Supplement
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Stefan Tanaka is Associate Professor of History, University of California, San Diego.
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The impact of the West and the reaction against the West are common cliches in the history of Meiji Japan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kangaku scholars, shifting cultural centers, okeru gendai, seiritsu shiron, hoho demi, prescientific philosophy, kindai shigaku, positivistic history, oriental past, rekishi chiri, positivistic studies, yori mitaru, timeless norm, enlightenment historians, waga kuni, oriental history, national essence, enlightenment history, positivistic research, imperial institution, fundamental spirit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Research Bureau, Western Orientalists, University of Tokyo, Ural Altai, East Asia, United States, University of California Press, Will of Heaven, Book of Documents, Tokyo Imperial University, Russo-Japanese War, Meiji Restoration, New York, European Orientalists, Far East, History of Civilization, Hou Han, Shigeno Yasutsugu, Central Asia, Creating Difference, Hattori Unokichi, Japanese Attitudes Toward Colonialism, Mandate of Heaven, Meiji Japan, Miyake Yonekichi New!
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The impact of the West and the reaction against the West are common cliches in the history of Meiji Japan. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kangaku scholars, shifting cultural centers, okeru gendai, seiritsu shiron, hoho demi, prescientific philosophy, kindai shigaku, positivistic history, oriental past, rekishi chiri, positivistic studies, yori mitaru, timeless norm, enlightenment historians, waga kuni, oriental history, national essence, enlightenment history, positivistic research, imperial institution, fundamental spirit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Research Bureau, Western Orientalists, University of Tokyo, Ural Altai, East Asia, United States, University of California Press, Will of Heaven, Book of Documents, Tokyo Imperial University, Russo-Japanese War, Meiji Restoration, New York, European Orientalists, Far East, History of Civilization, Hou Han, Shigeno Yasutsugu, Central Asia, Creating Difference, Hattori Unokichi, Japanese Attitudes Toward Colonialism, Mandate of Heaven, Meiji Japan, Miyake Yonekichi New!
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- The Chinese and the Japanese: Essays in Political and Cultural Interactions (Studies in Political Development: No. 10) by Akira Iriye on 5 pages
- Philosophy of History (Great Books in Philosophy) by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel on 4 pages
- History of Civilization in England by Henry T. Buckle on 4 pages
- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 4 pages
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- Korea Between Empires by Andre Schmid on 5 pages
- A Companion to Western Historical Thought (Blackwell Companions to World History) by Lloyd Kramer on 4 pages
- Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East" by Richard King in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Yanihara Tadao and Japanese Colonial Policy: Redeeming Empire (Curzon Studies in East Asia) by Leroy Townsend on page 65, page 253, and Back Matter
- Struggle For National Survival:Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Contexts, 1896-1945 by Yuehtsen Juliette Chung on page 98, page 164, and Back Matter
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