Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia

1997/07/01 by Sanjay Subrahmanyam · 12 citations
Social Sciences · #Japanese History and Culture

paper · doi:10.1017/s0026749x00017133

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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