Ian Nish

The Iwakura Mission to America and Europe (eBook, PDF)

A New Assessment

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Produktbeschreibung

Driven by the need to identify, classify and assess western technology and culture together with a desire to advance a dialogue for reviewing the so-called 'unequal treaties' - the new Meiji government of 1868 despatched a top-level ministerial team to the west which, in 1872, arrived in the United States. In all, they spent 205 days in America, 122 days in Britain and two months in France, as well as visiting other countries including Belgium, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Italy.

Drawing on the papers given at the triennial conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, held in Budapest in August 1997 (the year also marking the 125th anniversary of Iwakura's arrival), this volume presents a valuable new overview of the mission as a whole, with the significance and impact of the visit to each country being separately assessed. A supplement to the book looks at several 'post-Iwakura' topics, including a review of the mission's chief chronicler, Kume Kunitake.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135318802
• Artikelnr.: 42718602

Autorenporträt

Ian Nish

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1 America 15 January
6 August 1872 2 Britain 17 August
16 December 1872 [1] Early Meiji Travel Encounters [2] The Mission's Aims, Objectives & Results 3 France 16 December 1872
17 February 1873, 15
20 July 1873 4 Belgium 17
24 February 1873 5 Germany 7
28 March, 15
17 April, 1
8 May 1873 6 Russia 29 March
15 April 1873 7 Sweden 23
30 April 1873 8 Italy 9 May
2 June 1873 9 Engineering Education in Japan After the Iwakura Mission 10 The Social Whirl of 'White' Yokohama After Iwakura's Return 11 Kume Kunitake as a Historiographer, The Iwakura Mission: Aftermath and Assessment. Appendix: Kume Museum of Art (Tokyo).