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Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe - Beasley, W G, and Beasley, William G, and Gwilliam, G G
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For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions, and technology that would help them achieve the 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 to learn it, and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the ...

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Japan Encounters the Barbarian: Japanese Travellers in America and Europe 1995, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300063240

Hardcover