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• catalog abstract "For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W.G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.".
• catalog contributor b8196400.
• catalog coverage "Japan Civilization Western influences.".
• catalog coverage "Japan Relations Foreign countries.".
• catalog coverage "Japan Relations.".
• catalog created "1995.".
• catalog date "1995".
• catalog date "1995.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
• catalog description "For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W.G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Note on Japanese words, names and dates -- 1. Prologue: Japan and China. Trade and tribute missions. Cultural borrowing -- 2. Barbarian Books. The rejection of Christianity. Dutch studies. The military dimension -- 3. Unequal Treaties. The foreign policy debate. Western studies and military reform -- 4. The Mission to America, 1860. Diplomatic travels. The voyage of the Kanrin Maru -- 5. The Mission to Europe, 1862. The mission's instructions. Europe observed. Investigating and reporting -- 6. Envoys and Industry, 1865-1867. Edo and France. Satsuma and economic opportunity. The Paris Exposition -- 7. The First Japanese Students Overseas, 1862-1868. Bakufu students. Domain students -- 8. From Tokugawa to Meiji. Western advice and Japanese bureaucrats. Students and other travellers -- 9. The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873. Plans. Travels. Reports -- 10. The Fruits of Experience: I. Later Careers. Tokugawa envoys and students. Travellers from the domains before 1868. Early Meiji travellers -- 11. The Fruits of Experience: II. Policies and Ideas. Wealth and strength. The nature of society -- 12. Conclusion: Japan and the West.".
• catalog extent "xi, 252 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0300063245".
• catalog issued "1995".
• catalog issued "1995.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Japan Civilization Western influences.".
• catalog spatial "Japan Relations Foreign countries.".
• catalog spatial "Japan Relations.".
• catalog subject "327.52/009/034 20".
• catalog subject "DS882.6 .B43 1995".
• catalog tableOfContents "Note on Japanese words, names and dates -- 1. Prologue: Japan and China. Trade and tribute missions. Cultural borrowing -- 2. Barbarian Books. The rejection of Christianity. Dutch studies. The military dimension -- 3. Unequal Treaties. The foreign policy debate. Western studies and military reform -- 4. The Mission to America, 1860. Diplomatic travels. The voyage of the Kanrin Maru -- 5. The Mission to Europe, 1862. The mission's instructions. Europe observed. Investigating and reporting -- 6. Envoys and Industry, 1865-1867. Edo and France. Satsuma and economic opportunity. The Paris Exposition -- 7. The First Japanese Students Overseas, 1862-1868. Bakufu students. Domain students -- 8. From Tokugawa to Meiji. Western advice and Japanese bureaucrats. Students and other travellers -- 9. The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873. Plans. Travels. Reports -- 10. The Fruits of Experience: I. Later Careers. Tokugawa envoys and students. Travellers from the domains before 1868. Early Meiji travellers -- 11. The Fruits of Experience: II. Policies and Ideas. Wealth and strength. The nature of society -- 12. Conclusion: Japan and the West.".
• catalog title "Japan encounters the barbarian : Japanese travellers in America and Europe / W. G. Beasley.".
• catalog type "text".