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Lädt ... They Came to Japan (1965)von Michael Cooper
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This book, done while Cooper was still a young scholar (first printing is 1965), is so fine a selection of passages from 16-17c reports on Japan that when I gathered material for “Topsy-turvy 1585,” I found to my dismay that I was scooped time and time again. It was one reason I put in more of old Europe than I had planned: Cooper had not done it! And, Cooper’s notes are as perfect as his selection. The only problem I found in this book is a mistranslation from the Spanish of Valignano in the first passage of the Daily Life and Customs chapter, “Unlike Any Other People.” Because the statement is crucial to understanding Valignano’s understanding of cultural relativity (or his explanation of it, or apologia, to justify his revolutionary policy of Accomodation), I give it lengthy treatment on page 16 of my book. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The Japan accidentally discovered by the Europeans in 1543 was a country torn by internecene wars waged by independent barons who recognised no effective central government and were free to appropriate as many neighbouring fiefs as force of arms and treachery would permit. The Japan which deported the Europeans a century later was a stable, highly centralised bureaucracy under the firm control of a usurping family which was to continue to rule the country until well into the Victorian age. Europeans living in Japan at the time have not only recorded the events of this fascinating period but also provided a picture of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Japanese life. Apart from a few lacunae, a remarkably full description of the country in this century-its history, people, traditions, culture, and religion-can be pieced together. They Came to Japan collects and translates excerpts from more than thirty early European accounts of Japan, many previously unpublished and extremely rare. Arranged into thematic chapters on aspects of Japanese society, these commentaries are most interesting not for what they say about the Japan but about the European writers themselves. Their attitude towards the newly discovered country and its inhabitants is clearly reflected in their letters and reports, especially when implicit comparisons are made between Japan and Europe. During the course of their discovery of the East, the Europeans had generally adopted the role of representatives of a superior race. They had taken for granted that Europe was synonymous with the civilised world, and thus the discovery of the highly developed Japanese culture and civilisation, which had grown up quite independently of Europe, came as a salutary shock. Because they could not aggressively assert themselves by force of arms in such a remote place, as was their norm, this was to be the first confrontation between East and West on equal terms. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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