1st Edition
The Modernizers Overseas Students, Foreign Employees, And Meiji Japan
By Ardath W. Burks
Copyright 1985
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
450 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume of essays by Japanese and Western scholars sheds light on the process of modernization in nineteenth-century Japan, focusing on two significant aspects of Japan's transition to a modern society: the decision to live for a time with the necessary evil of relying on the skill and advice of foreign employees (oyatio gaikokujin) and the decision to dispatch Japanese students overseas... Read more
PART 1 THE JAPANESE BACKGROUND, PART 2 JAPANESE STUDENTS OVERSEAS, PART 3 FOREIGN EMPLOYEES IN JAPAN, PART 4 EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE SOCIETY, PART 5 THE LEGACY
Biography
Dr. Ardath W. Burks, professor emeritus of Asian studies at Rutgers University, is the author of Japan: Profile of a Post-industrial Power.
