China in the Tokugawa World

Nachdruck 2014
ISBN: 978-0-674-18475-6
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures

This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the modern era. This familiar story of seclusion, argues master historian Marius B. Jansen, results from viewing the period soley 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 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansen, Marius B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Jansen Marius B. :
Marius B. Jansen was Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University. He was the author of Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration.