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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

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  • Nehru, Tibet and China

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    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
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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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