Japan’s Modern Century: A Special Issue of Monumenta Nipponica Prepared in Celebration of the Centennial of the Meiji RestorationEdited by Edmund R. Skrzypczak
Other Books (1968) pp. 1–207
The essays collected in this volume are witness to the richness of Japanese culture in the early Meiji period. The authors themselves come from different cultural backgrounds and approach the study of modern Japan from different aspects. They do not seek and do not reach common answers, but they have a common interest in the phenomenon of the emergence of a rejuvenated Japanese culture.
The confrontation between tradition and change, the assimilation of Western ideas through a process of rejection, infatuation and synthesis, are described in these essays giving us new insights for a deeper interpretation of the history of modern Japan.
1968. 207 pages.
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