Reopening the Opening of Japan
Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
Published on 2. November 2023
Book
Hardback
442 pages
978-90-04-68343-3 (ISBN)
Description
The 'Opening of Japan' has been central to the retelling of Japan's modern history. Reopening the Opening of Japan fundamentally reconsiders what that historical moment entailed.
What did intensified connections between Japan and the world mean both inside and outside of the country, and what does this tell us about Japan's historical significance on a global scale? The chapters excavate a rich array of surprising cross-border connections, from the global trade in mummified mermaids to the Japanese-Russian intellectual links underpinning the work of Akira Kurosawa.
Re-thinking connectivity through non-state transnational perspectives, the book guides readers to new ways of doing and writing history.
Contributors are: Lewis Bremner, Natalia Doan, Manimporok Dotulong, Maki Fukuoka, Eiko Honda, Sho Konishi, Mateja Kovacic, Joel Littler, Chinami Oka, Yu Sakai, Olga Solovieva, and Warren Stanislaus.
What did intensified connections between Japan and the world mean both inside and outside of the country, and what does this tell us about Japan's historical significance on a global scale? The chapters excavate a rich array of surprising cross-border connections, from the global trade in mummified mermaids to the Japanese-Russian intellectual links underpinning the work of Akira Kurosawa.
Re-thinking connectivity through non-state transnational perspectives, the book guides readers to new ways of doing and writing history.
Contributors are: Lewis Bremner, Natalia Doan, Manimporok Dotulong, Maki Fukuoka, Eiko Honda, Sho Konishi, Mateja Kovacic, Joel Littler, Chinami Oka, Yu Sakai, Olga Solovieva, and Warren Stanislaus.
Reviews / Votes
"A pioneering critique of the historiography of 'the opening.' The book is a major contribution to the field, re-thinking approaches to global as well as national history." - M. William Steele, Professor Emeritus, International Christian UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
776 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-68343-3 (9789004683433)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge) is a historian in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.
Manimporok Dotulong (Brown University) studies transnational connections across and beyond Asia with a focus on intellectual and environmental history.
Sho Konishi (University of Oxford) is a historian specialising in transnational formations of knowledge at Oxford University, where he is the Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
Manimporok Dotulong (Brown University) studies transnational connections across and beyond Asia with a focus on intellectual and environmental history.
Sho Konishi (University of Oxford) is a historian specialising in transnational formations of knowledge at Oxford University, where he is the Director of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Lewis Bremner and Manimporok Dotulong
Part 1: Visions of Civilisation
1 The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation
?Samurai, Interracial Romance, and Southern Print Culture
?Natalia Doan
2 Laughing at Civilisation
?Charles Wirgman's Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain
?Warren A. Stanislaus
3 Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887-1892
?Eiko Honda
Part 2: Life through the Opening
4 Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies Ningyo in the Making of the Theory of Evolution
?Mateja Kovacic
5 Hyakusho in the Arafura Zone
?Ecologising the Nineteenth-Century "Opening of Japan"
?Manimporok Dotulong
6 The Transformation of Magic Lantern Technology in Nineteenth Century Japan
?Lewis Bremner
7 Squaring Experiences with the Opening
?The Case of Yokoyama Matsusaburo
?Maki Fukuoka
Part 3: From Particularity to Radical Universality
8 The Modern Closing of a Tokugawa-Era "Opening"
?The Early Modern Origins of an International Humanitarian Organisation
?Sho Konishi
9 A Defeated Samurai of the Boshin Civil War and the Search for a New Universalism
?Chinami Oka
10 Meiji Civil War Losers in Siam
?Miyazaki Toten's Utopian Farming Community (1877-1896)
?Joel Littler
11 The "Second Ishin" and Kunikida Doppo's Misunderstood Nature
?Yu Sakai
Part 4: Epilogue: Postwar Reflections
12 Something Like an Autobiography
?Akira Kurosawa on Free Pedagogy and Restoration of Japan's Democratic Self
?Olga V. Solovieva
Index
Acknowledgments and Permissions
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
?Lewis Bremner and Manimporok Dotulong
Part 1: Visions of Civilisation
1 The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation
?Samurai, Interracial Romance, and Southern Print Culture
?Natalia Doan
2 Laughing at Civilisation
?Charles Wirgman's Japan Punch and the Reopening of Great Britain
?Warren A. Stanislaus
3 Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887-1892
?Eiko Honda
Part 2: Life through the Opening
4 Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies Ningyo in the Making of the Theory of Evolution
?Mateja Kovacic
5 Hyakusho in the Arafura Zone
?Ecologising the Nineteenth-Century "Opening of Japan"
?Manimporok Dotulong
6 The Transformation of Magic Lantern Technology in Nineteenth Century Japan
?Lewis Bremner
7 Squaring Experiences with the Opening
?The Case of Yokoyama Matsusaburo
?Maki Fukuoka
Part 3: From Particularity to Radical Universality
8 The Modern Closing of a Tokugawa-Era "Opening"
?The Early Modern Origins of an International Humanitarian Organisation
?Sho Konishi
9 A Defeated Samurai of the Boshin Civil War and the Search for a New Universalism
?Chinami Oka
10 Meiji Civil War Losers in Siam
?Miyazaki Toten's Utopian Farming Community (1877-1896)
?Joel Littler
11 The "Second Ishin" and Kunikida Doppo's Misunderstood Nature
?Yu Sakai
Part 4: Epilogue: Postwar Reflections
12 Something Like an Autobiography
?Akira Kurosawa on Free Pedagogy and Restoration of Japan's Democratic Self
?Olga V. Solovieva
Index