Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan The New Theses Of 1825

Name: Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan The New Theses Of 1825
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ISBN: 9780674040373

ISBN-10: 0674040376

ISBN-13: 9780674040373

Edition: 1986

Authors: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

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This study analyzes New Theses (Shinron), by Aizawa Seishisai (1781-1863), and its contribution to Japanese political thought and policy during the earlymodern era. New Theses is found to be indispensable to our understanding of Japan's transformation from a feudal to a modern state.Focusing on Aizawa, Wakabayashi traces the development of xenophobia during the Tokugawa period and examines the basis of antiWestern sentiment. He shows how knowledge of Christianity inspired Aizawa to develop thepotent concept of kokutai ("what is essential to a nation"). His analysis explains why the Edobakufu's policies of national isolation (sakoku) and armed expulsion of Westerners (jotilde;i) gained…

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
Publication date: 8/5/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Foreword and Acknowledgments


Introduction


Prologue: Looking Backward


The Civilized and the Barbarian


Civilization: Where Confucian Ritual Obtains


Japan: A Land of Splendid Barbarians


Innate Japanese Superiority: The Rise of Kokugaku


The Excellence of Western Barbarians


The Mito Synthesis: Japan as Middle Kingdom


Knowledge and Hatred of the West


The Road to National Isolation: Misconceptions of Sakoku


Aizawa's View of Christianity: Conquest Without Warfare


The Threat from the North: Russia


The Threat from the South: Spain and (New) England


Western Learning and Confucian World View


Aizawa and his New Theses


Rangaku and Expulsion by Force: Takahashi Kageyasu


The World Situation in 1825 as Seen in New Theses


New Theses on Domestic Reform


The Sages and their "Expedient Device"


Kokutai and "A Long-Range Policy"


Epilogue: Looking Ahead


Translation: New Theses


Prefatory Remarks


What is Essential to a Nation [Kokutai] (I)


What is Essential to a Nation [Kokutai] (II)


What is Essential to a Nation [Kokutai] (III)


World Affairs


The Barbarians' Nature


National Defense


A Long-Range Policy


Appendix


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Glossary


Index