Japanese Experience A Short History of Japan

Name: Japanese Experience A Short History of Japan
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ISBN: 9780520225602

ISBN-10: 0520225600

ISBN-13: 9780520225602

Edition: 1999

Authors: W. G. Beasley

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The Japanese Experience is an authoritative history of Japan from the sixth century to the present day. Only a writer of W.G. Beasley's stature could render Japan's complicated past so concisely and elegantly. This is the history of a society and a culture with a distinct sense of itself, one of the few nations never conquered by a foreign power in historic times (until the twentieth century) and the home of the longest-reigning imperial dynasty that still survives. The Japanese have always occupied part or all of the same territory, its borders defined by the sea. They have spoken and written a common language, (once it had taken firm shape in about the tenth century) and their population…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/31/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



List of maps


List of illustrations


Japanese words, names and dates


Introduction: Patterns and Periods



Origins


Myths


Archaeology


The Yamato state


Primitive religion



The Making of a Monarchy


Chinese-style government


Capital cities


The Fujiwara regents



Buddhism and Chinese Culture


Buddhism and Shinto


Tribute missions and Chinese learning


Literature, art and music



The Ebbing of the Chinese Tide


Public land, private land


The rise of a warrior class after 800


Heian culture



Japanese Feudalism


The Kamakura Bakufu (1185-1333)


Feudalism in the Muromachi period (1336-1460)



Medieval Culture 1200-1450


Buddhism


Prose literature and drama


Chinese influence on the arts



The Unifiers


Warfare and warlords (1460-1560)


Nobunaga and Hideyoshi (1560-1598)


The Tokugawa settlement (1600-1650)



Relations with Asia and Europe 1500-1700


The China trade


Korea and Ryukyu


Christianity and seclusion



Edo Society


The ruling class


The village and the town



Edo Culture


Chinese thought, Japanese thought


Literature and the arts



The Coming of the West 1840-1873


Unequal treaties


Nationalism and politics


Study of the West



The Modern State


Political institutions


Social change


Tradition and modernity



Fifty Years of Foreign Wars 1894-1945


Industry and empire


The struggle for Greater East Asia



Postwar Japan


Glossary


Bibliography


Index