Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia
1997/07/01 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam · 1,070 citations
Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #Ancient history #Closure (psychology) #Economic history #Geography #History #Japanese History and Culture #Law #Meiji Restoration #Meiji period #Period (music) #Philosophy #Political science #Relation (database)
paper · doi:10.1017/s0026749x00017133
published in Modern Asian Studies 31(3), 735-762 (Cambridge University Press)
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Abstract
The majority of Japanese even today believe that the politico-cultural universe of the Edo period was fundamentally determined by the closure of the country. They also think that the opening of Japan can be reduced to the development of exchanges with the West, following the birth of the Meiji regime. It is hard for them to imagine that Japan developed in relation with other Asian countries, since they are hardly used to appreciating Asian cultures.
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