Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-27430-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 60, 374 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 674 g

Reihe: Brill's Japanese Studies Library

Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism
and transnationality. The global team of scholars brings to light Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China.
Contributors include: Ian Nish, Christopher Szpilman, Sven Saaler, Selcuk Esenbel, Li Narangoa, Komatsu Hisao, Brij Tankha, Erdal Küçükyalcin, A. Merthan Dündar, Katayama Akio, Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Klaus Röhborn, Mehmet Ölmez, Banu Kaygusuz, Oguz Baykara, and Sato Masako.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Esenbel, Selçuk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations viii
Contributors (By Order of Chapter) x

Introduction - Selçuk Esenbel
1 Japan and the Great Game - Ian Nish
2 Western and Central Asia in the Eyes of the Japanese Radical Right - Christopher W.A. Szpilman
3 Fukushima Yasumasa’s Travels in Central Asia and Siberia: Silk Road Romanticism, Military Reconnaissance, or Modern Exploration? - Sven Saaler
4 Fukushima Yasumasa and Utsunomiya Taro on the Edge of the Silk Road: Pan-Asian Visions and the Network of Military Intelligence from the
Ottoman and Qajar Realms into Central Asia - Selçuk Esenbel
5 Mongolia as a Base for Central Asia and the Silk Road - Li Narangoa
6 Abdurreshid Ibrahim and Japanese Approaches to Central Asia - Komatsu Hisao
7 Exploring Asia, Reforming Japan: Otani Kozui and Ito Chuta - Brij Tankha
8 Otani Kozui and His Vision of Asia: From Villa Nirakuso to “The Rise of Asia” Project - Erdal Küçükyalçin
9 The Effects of the Russo-Japanese War on Turkic Nations: Japan and Japanese in Folk Songs, Elegies, and Poems - A. Merthan Dündar
10 Some Notes on the Japanese Records and Information on the “Turks” - Katayama Akio
11 Tracing Origins Along the Silk Road: Japanese Architect Ito Chuta’s Travel in the Ottoman Lands -Miyuki Aoki Girardelli
12 The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan - Klaus Röhrborn
13 Appendix to the “The Beginning of Turkish Philology and Linguistics in Japan” - Mehmet Ölmez
14 F. Beato beyond Empires: Flaneur, Photo Reporter, Merchant - Banu Kaygusuz
15 Translation Practices on the Silk Road and Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s “Toshishun” - Oguz Baykara
16 Transforming an Ancient Myth into a Popular Medieval Tale - Masako Sato

Index 365

Über Autor(innen)

Selçuk Esenbel is (emerita) Professor of Japanese and Asian History at the History Department of Bogazici University as well as the founding Director and current Academic Coordinator of the Asian Studies Center. She is also a Professor of History at 29 May University in Istanbul. She has received the Special Award of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, the Imperial Order of the Rising Sun, and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Georg Forster award for research. Esenbel is an honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Science (tüba), Trustee
of the Toynbee Prize Foundation, and Fulbright Senior Scholar. Esenbel has published in the American Historical Review, Bulletin of SOAS,
Japan Review. Her most recent publication in English is Japan, Turkey, and the World of Islam, (Brill Global Oriental, 2011).