Author: Toshio Yokoyama
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-01-13
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1349083720
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ronald P. Toby
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-01-21
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 900439351X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Engaging the Other: “Japan and Its Alter-Egos”, 1550-1850 Ronald P. Toby examines new discourses of identity and difference in early modern Japan, a discourse catalyzed by the “Iberian irruption,” the appearance of Portuguese and other new, radical others in the sixteenth century. The encounter with peoples and countries unimagined in earlier discourse provoked an identity crisis, a paradigm shift from a view of the world as comprising only “three countries” (sangoku), i.e., Japan, China and India, to a world of “myriad countries” (bankoku) and peoples. In order to understand the new radical alterities, the Japanese were forced to establish new parameters of difference from familiar, proximate others, i.e., China, Korea and Ryukyu. Toby examines their articulation in literature, visual and performing arts, law, and customs.
Author: Ian Neary
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-05-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1134244258
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shows Japan's group-orientated society may have had fewer so-called 'leaders', but has excelled as a society of king-makers. On the other hand, the way leadership is expressed derives from different values and perceptions of hierarchy.
Author: Hamish Ion
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 0774858990
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Japan closed its doors to foreigners for over two hundred years because of religious and political instability caused by Christianity. By 1859, foreign residents were once again living in treaty ports in Japan, but edicts banning Christianity remained enforced until 1873. Drawing on an impressive array of English and Japanese sources, Ion investigates a crucial era in the history of Japanese-American relations the formation of Protestant missions. He reveals that the transmission of values and beliefs was not a simple matter of acceptance or rejection: missionaries and Christian laymen persisted in the face of open hostility and served as important liaisons between East and West.
Author: A. Hamish Ion
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 0889202184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The influx of Protestant missionaries from Britain to Japan, Korea and Taiwan was an integral part of the British presence in East Asia from 1865 to 1945. Ion draws on both British and Japanese sources to examine the life, work and attitudes of the British missionaries, women and men, who ventured far from their homeland to preach the gospel. He explores the role played by British Protestants as both Christian missionaries and informal ambassadors of their own country and civilization. Through their educational, social and medical work the missionaries helped introduce Western ideas and social pursuits which in turn affected different facets of society and culture in Japan, Korea and Taiwan. The study illustrates how the British missionaries’ intent to introduce Christianity was affected by the response of the East Asians to Western ideas. In describing the high drama of the British missionary movement’s pioneering days in the late nineteenth century to its persecution during the late 1930s, Ion casts light on a particular, yet important, aspect of the changing tides of Anglo-Japanese relations. This book will ably complement his previous study of Canadian missionaries in East Asia during the same period. Chosen as one of the 15 outstanding books of 1993 for mission studies by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Author: Olive Checkland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1135786194
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the two-way bridge-building cultural exchange which took place between Japan and Britain in the years after 1859 and into the early years of the twentieth century.
Author: Edward R. Beauchamp
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-12-12
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 1351387146
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book, first published in 1989, includes essays on a number of the most important topics in Japanese education as well as the highly selected, and annotated, bibliographies. It is the editors' belief that understanding educational matters requires insight into the historical context, and have therefore placed contemporary Japanese educational matters in historical perspective.
Author: Rotem Kowner
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-04-21
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9004292934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A sequel to the groundbreaking volume, Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions, the present volume examines in depth interactions between Western racial constructions of East Asians and local constructions of race and their outcomes in modern times. Focusing on China, Japan and the two Koreas, it also analyzes the close ties between race, racism and nationalism, as well as the links race has had with gender and lineage in the region. Written by some of the field's leading authorities, this insightful and engaging 23-chapter volume offers a sweeping overview and analysis of racial constructions and racism in modern and contemporary East Asia that is unsurpassed in previous scholarship.
Author: Jane Desmarais
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 745
ISBN-13: 0190066954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Edited by Jane Desmarais and David Weir.