Sagacious Monks And Bloodthirsty Warriors
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Sagacious Monks And Bloodthirsty Warriors
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Eastbridge Books
Release Date : 2017
Sagacious Monks And Bloodthirsty Warriors written by Joshua A. Fogel and has been published by Eastbridge Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with China categories.
Sagacious Monks And Bloodthirsty Warriors
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Signature Books
Release Date : 2002
Sagacious Monks And Bloodthirsty Warriors written by Joshua A. Fogel and has been published by Signature Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
¿¿an ambitious, useful, and generally well-written collection of essays on Chinese views of Japan during the Ming¿and the Qing¿dynasties. Editor Joshua A. Fogel is the foremost American scholar in this field¿Fogel is to be commended for the book¿s international scope, and especially for introducing five major Chinese scholars to Western readers¿this is a useful and welcome book on an important area of study in Asian history. Major scholars in the field of Sino-American relations pack each chapter with new information, often available for the first time in English. I have found much of the new material in this book useful in revising my lectures on modern East Asian history. Because the book is so eclectic in its scope and coverage, there is surely something worthwhile for graduate students and all scholars interested in learning more about modern cultural and intellectual relations between China and Japan.¿¿American Historical Review
The Samurai Swordsman
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Author : Stephen Turnbull
language : en
Publisher: Frontline Books
Release Date : 2008-02-20
The Samurai Swordsman written by Stephen Turnbull and has been published by Frontline Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-20 with History categories.
Samurai tells the story of the courageous and highly disciplined fighting men of this time, showing how they evolved from the primitive fighters of the seventh century into an invincible military caste with a fearsome reputation. In the early seventh century, the samurai rose to prominence during the struggles between the emperor and the military leaders (shogun). They took part in the invasion of Korea, as well as helping to keep Japan free from foreign influence. From the Heian period through to the Onin wars, the history of the samurai is replete with tales of heroism and bloodshed. Although the samurai is most famous for his use of the sword, he also used a wide variety of other weapons, such as the crossbow, the dagger and the spear. Samurai armour and costume were constantly evolving, and by the twelfth century most samurai were wearing the box-like yoroi armour. Samurai examines samurai fighting tactics, as well as acts such as ritual suicide (hari-kiri) and the taking of enemy heads as trophies.
History Of Technology Volume 29
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Author : Ian Inkster
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-06-15
History Of Technology Volume 29 written by Ian Inkster and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The common question from the western point of view is of the sort; why did China lose its early leadership of productive technologies to Europe during the early modern period? Answers to this seemingly clear enquiry vary from general cultural inwardness to the interferences of imperial governance. This collection surveys such theories but alters the issue by raising the notion that Chinese technologies did not so much fail as move along a path different from that of Europe. Our second collection on the Mindful Hand, also shifts common ground by querying and modifying common views of the links between knowledge and technique in early-modern European development. Scientific or related knowledge was not brought to technique as a socio-cultural gift from an educated elite to the working man. Rather, educated gents, practitioners, instrument makers, craftsfolk and technicians of all kinds intermingled both socially and in terms of the recognition of technical problems as well as in the assemblage of the mental, commercial and cognitive resources required to pursue innovative production projects.
A Dragon S Head And A Serpent S Tail
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Author : Kenneth M. Swope
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2013-04-29
A Dragon S Head And A Serpent S Tail written by Kenneth M. Swope and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-29 with History categories.
The invasion of Korea by Japanese troops in May of 1592 was no ordinary military expedition: it was one of the decisive events in Asian history and the most tragic for the Korean peninsula until the mid-twentieth century. Japanese overlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi envisioned conquering Korea, Ming China, and eventually all of Asia; but Korea’s appeal to China’s Emperor Wanli for assistance triggered a six-year war involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers and encompassing the whole region. For Japan, the war was “a dragon’s head followed by a serpent’s tail”: an impressive beginning with no real ending. Kenneth M. Swope has undertaken the first full-length scholarly study in English of this important conflict. Drawing on Korean, Japanese, and especially Chinese sources, he corrects the Japan-centered perspective of previous accounts and depicts Wanli not as the self-indulgent ruler of received interpretations but rather one actively engaged in military affairs—and concerned especially with rescuing China’s client state of Korea. He puts the Ming in a more vigorous light, detailing Chinese siege warfare, the development and deployment of innovative military technologies, and the naval battles that marked the climax of the war. He also explains the war’s repercussions outside the military sphere—particularly the dynamics of intraregional diplomacy within the shadow of the Chinese tributary system. What Swope calls the First Great East Asian War marked both the emergence of Japan’s desire to extend its sphere of influence to the Chinese mainland and a military revival of China’s commitment to defending its interests in Northeast Asia. Swope’s account offers new insight not only into the history of warfare in Asia but also into a conflict that reverberates in international relations to this day.
A Global History Of Modern Historiography
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Author : Georg G Iggers
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-13
A Global History Of Modern Historiography written by Georg G Iggers and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-13 with History categories.
So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.
Different Worlds Of Discourse
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Author : Nanxiu Qian
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-06-30
Different Worlds Of Discourse written by Nanxiu Qian and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-30 with Social Science categories.
Different Worlds of Discourse explores the late Qing reform era (c. 1895–1912) from three interrelated and comparatively neglected perspectives: the construction of gender roles, the development of literary genres, and the emergence of new forms of print media.
Sino Japanese Reflections
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2022-05-09
Sino Japanese Reflections written by Joshua A. Fogel and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-09 with History categories.
Sino-Japanese Reflections offers ten richly detailed case studies that examine various forms of cultural and literary interaction between Japanese and Chinese intellectuals from the late Ming to the early twentieth century. The authors consider efforts by early modern scholars on each side of the Yellow Sea to understand the language and culture of the other, to draw upon received texts and forms, and to contribute to shared literary practices. Whereas literary and cultural flow within the Sinosphere is sometimes imagined to be an entirely unidirectional process of textual dissemination from China to the periphery, the contributions to this volume reveal a more complex picture: highlighting how literary and cultural engagement was always an opportunity for creative adaptation and negotiation. Examining materials such as Chinese translations of Japanese vernacular poetry, Japanese engagements with Chinese supernatural stories, adaptations of Japanese historical tales into vernacular Chinese, Sinitic poetry composed in Japan, and Japanese Sinology, the volume brings together recent work by literary scholars and intellectual historians of multiple generations, all of whom have a strong comparative interest in Sino-Japanese studies.
The Early Modern Travels Of Manchu
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Author : Marten Soderblom Saarela
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2020-06-19
The Early Modern Travels Of Manchu written by Marten Soderblom Saarela and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-19 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
A linguistic and historical study of the Manchu script in the early modern world Manchu was a language first written down as part of the Qing state-building project in Northeast Asia in the early seventeenth century. After the Qing invasion of China in 1644, and for the next two and a half centuries, Manchu was the language of state in one of the early modern world's great powers. Its prominence and novelty attracted the interest of not only Chinese literati but also foreign scholars. Yet scholars in Europe and Japan, and occasionally even within China itself, were compelled to study the language without access to a native speaker. Jesuit missionaries in Beijing sent Chinese books on Manchu to Europe, where scholars struggled to represent it in an alphabet compatible with Western pedagogy and printing technology. In southern China, meanwhile, an isolated phonologist with access to Jesuit books relied on expositions of the Roman alphabet to make sense of the Manchu script. When Chinese textbooks and dictionaries of Manchu eventually reached Japan, scholars there used their knowledge of Dutch to understand Manchu. In The Early Modern Travels of Manchu, Mårten Söderblom Saarela focuses on outsiders both within and beyond the Qing empire who had little interaction with Manchu speakers but took an interest in the strange, new language of a rising world power. He shows how—through observation, inference, and reference to received ideas on language and writing—intellectuals in southern China, Russia, France, Chosŏn Korea, and Tokugawa Japan deciphered the Manchu script and explores the uses to which it was put for recording sounds and arranging words.
Maiden Voyage
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Author : Joshua A. Fogel
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Maiden Voyage written by Joshua A. Fogel and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with History categories.
Japanese from varied domains, as well as shogunal officials, Nagasaki merchants, and an assortment of deck hands, made the voyage along with a British crew, spending a total of ten weeks observing and interacting with the Chinese and with a handful of Westerners. Roughly a dozen Japanese narratives of the voyage were produced at the time, recounting personal impressions and experiences in Shanghai. The Japanese emissaries had the distinct advantage of being able to communicate with their Chinese hosts by means of the "brush conversation" (written exchanges in literary Chinese). For their part, the Chinese authorities also created a paper trail of reports and memorials concerning the Japanese visitors, which worked its way up and down the bureaucratic chain of command. This was the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in several centuries.