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Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825
Harvard University Press, 1986 Paper: 978-0-674-04037-3 | Cloth: 978-0-674-04025-0 Library of Congress Classification DS822.2.W34 1986 Dewey Decimal Classification 952.025
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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 early–modern era. New Theses is found to be indispensable to our understanding of Japan's transformation from a feudal to a modern state. See other books on: 1600-1868 | Early Modern Japan | Foreign relations | Intellectual life | Japan See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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This title is no longer available from this publisher at this time. To let the publisher know you are interested in the title, please email bv-help@uchicago.edu.
Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early Modern Japan: The New Theses of 1825
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Harvard University Press, 1986
Paper: 978-0-674-04037-3
Cloth: 978-0-674-04025-0
Paper: 978-0-674-04037-3
Cloth: 978-0-674-04025-0
This study analyzes New Theses (Shinron), by Aizawa Seishisai (1781—1863), and its contribution to Japanese political thought and policy during the early–modern 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 anti–Western 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 (jõi) gained widespread support in the late Tokugawa. Wakabayashi also describes how information on Western affairs and world conditions decisively altered Tokugawa Confucian conceptions of civilization and barbarism, and how this in turn enabled the Japanese to redefine their nation's relationship to China and the West.
Rather than place Aizawa and his New Theses of 1825 at the beginning of a process leading up to the Meiji Restoration, Wakabayashi discusses New Theses in conjunction with the bakufu's Expulsion Edict issued in the same year. He concludes that the convergence of the two events in 1825 marks the emergence of modern nationalism in Japan, and therefore should perhaps be seen as more epoch–making than the 1868 Restoration itself.
The study also presents a complete translation of New Theses.
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