Donald Keene The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830Condition: NewAuthor: Donald KeeneFormat: PaperbackISBN-10: 0804706697EAN: 9780804706698ISBN: 9780804706698Edition: Revised EditionPublisher: Stanford University PressGenre: HistoryRelease Date: 06/01/1969Description: This is an account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan from 1720 to 1830. These are the dates of the beginning of official interest in Western learning and of the expulsion of Siebold from the country, the first stage of a crisis that could be resolved only by the opening of the country of the West. The century and more included by the two dates was a most important period in Japanese history, when intellectuals, rebelling at the isolation of their country, desperately sought knowledge from abroad. The amazing energy and enthusiasm of men like Honda Toshiaki made possible the spectacular changes in Japan, which are all too often credited to the arrival of Commodore Perry. The author chose Honda Toshiaki (1744-1821) as his central figure. A page from any one of Honda's writings suffices to show that with him one has entered a new age, that of modern Japan. One finds in his books a new spirit, restless, curious and receptive. There is in him the wonder at new discoveries, the delight in widening horizons. Honda took a kind of pleasure even in revealing that Japan, after all, was only a small island in a large world. To the Japanese who had thought of Chinese civilization as being immemorial antiquity, he declared that Egypt's was thousands of years older and far superior. The world, he discovered, was full of wonderful things, and he insisted that Japan take advantage of them. Honda looked at Japan as he thought a Westerner might, and saw things that had to be changed, terrible drains on the country's moral and physical strength. Within him sprang the conviction that Japan must become one of the great nations of the world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 354gRelease Year: 1969 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830

Title: The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830

ISBN-10: 0804706697

EAN: 9780804706698

ISBN: 9780804706698

Edition: Revised Edition

Genre: History

Release Date: 06/01/1969

Release Year: 1969

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Number of Pages: 272 Pages

Publication Name: Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 : Revised Edition

Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Subject: Asia / Japan, International Relations / General

Item Height: 0.6 in

Publication Year: 1969

Item Weight: 12.5 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Political Science, History

Author: Donald Keene

Item Length: 8.5 in

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Trade Paperback