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  • From Samurai to Engineer-Manager

    The Case Study of Ōhara Junnosuke (1859–96), Mining Specialist in Meiji Japan

    by Erich Pauer ...
    From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ōhara Junnosuke in the early decades of Japan’s industrialization.While Japan's political and socio-economic development during the Meiji period has been extensively researched, the technological/technical foundations that were crucial to its success have remained largely obscure. Drawing on unique, ... Read more

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  • Accessing Technical Education in Modern Japan

    Edited by Erich Pauer, Regine Mathias ...
    This collection of fourteen key papers deriving from CEEJA’s second international conference exploring the Japanese history of technology, concentrates on the routes to acquiring and transmitting technical knowledge in Japan’s modern era – from the very earliest endeavours in establishing opportunities for acquiring a technical education to the translation of foreign textbooks and manuals. ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Technical Knowledge in Early Modern Japan

    Edited by Erich Pauer, Russelle Meade ...
    Series series Japanese History of Technology
    Drawing on the papers presented at CEEJA’s ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan

    by David G. Wittner ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining how nineteenth century beliefs in civilization and enlightenment influenced the process of technological choice.Through case studies of the iron and silk industries, Wittner argues that the Meiji government’s guiding ... Read more

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  • Revisiting Japan’s Restoration

    New Approaches to the Study of the Meiji Transformation

    Edited by Timothy Amos, Akiko Ishii ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This volume presents the reader with thirty-one short chapters that capture an exciting new moment in the study of the Meiji Restoration. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of approaches and interpretations of the Restoration that showcase the strengths of the most recent interpretative trends in history writing on Japan while simultaneously offering new research pathways.On a scale probably never ... Read more

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  • A History of the People’s Action Party, 1985-2021

    by Shashi Jayakumar ...
    The People's Action Party (PAP) of Singapore is among the longest-ruling democratically-elected political parties in the world, in power continuously since Singapore gained self-rule in 1959. Such longevity is the product of an institution that is itself dynamic and responsive. But remarkably, the story of the party as institution has not received the sustained study it deserves from either ... Read more

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  • Japan - Culture Smart!

    The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

    by Culture Smart!, Paul Norbury ...
    Series series Culture Smart!
    Don't just see the sights—get to know the people.The Japanese people have always seen themselves as a nation uniquely apart. Their exquisite art forms and elegant culture, military prowess and technological precision, have long been the envy of friend and foe alike. Today, even as Japan adapts to a rapidly changing world, its traditional culture and consensus-based philosophy have proved ... Read more

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  • Japanese Design

    Art, Aesthetics & Culture

    by Patricia Graham ...
    **Winner, Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title 2015**This Japanese design book presents the arts, aesthetics and culture of Japan with over 160 stunning color photos and extensive historical and cultural commentary .The Japanese sensibility often possesses an intuitive, emotional appeal, whether it's a silk kimono, a carefully raked garden path, an architectural marvel, a teapot, or a ... Read more

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  • The Bells of Old Tokyo

    Meditations on Time and a City

    by Anna Sherman ...
    An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo, its past, and its people from "a profoundly evocative writer" ( The Wall Street Journal).Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje PrizeFrom 1632 until 1854, Japan's rulers restricted contact with foreign countries, a near isolation that fostered a remarkable and unique culture that endures to this day. In hypnotic prose and sensual detail, ... Read more

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