Timothy D. Amos and Akiko Ishii, "Revisiting Japan's Restoration: New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation" (Routledge, 2021)
New Books in East Asian Studies
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The Mazy Indictment - Is There Any Way Out?
Who were the readers of these newspapers? Were they foreigners in in china's port cities? Yes, yes. So predominantly it is our foreigners within the treaty ports that would be reading this. And a next i wonder you ask aico am, since you write about enlightenment a for isor at least on japanese study. On japanese history, enlightenment and civilization were two important slogans during the years after right after the restoration. Can you talk more about this point? Sure. I wanted to find a way to understand their work without assuming the parallel was with the west so much. It is true that sat or other interlectals in this period shared such developmental, developmental vision
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