Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan - Hardcover

Rosenstone, Robert A.

 
9780674576414: Mirror in the Shrine: American Encounters with Meiji Japan
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674576411 ISBN 13: 9780674576414
Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

Cross-cultural contacts between America and Japan in the nineteenth-century are typified in the stories of three visitors--missionary William Elliot Griffis, scientist Edward S. Morse, and writer Lafeadio Hern.

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"Mirror in the Shrine does what we want historical biography to do: to speak through the sources and bring to life the trials, excitements, disappointments, joys, and ambitions of long-past souls. Rosenstone does this much and more. long-past souls. Rosenstone does this much and more. "Mirror in the Shrine" does what we want historical biography to do: to speak through the sources and bring to life the trials, excitements, disappointments, joys, and ambitions of long-past souls. Rosenstone does this much and more.--C. Andrew Gerstle "Journal of Asian Studies " A fascinating study of cross-cultural encounters, written with great empathy not only for the three men but for the culture and the people they loved.--Kunio Francis Tanabe "Washington Post Book World "

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Cross-cultural contacts between America and Japan in the nineteenth-century are typified in the stories of three visitors--missionary William Elliot Griffis, scientist Edward S. Morse, and writer Lafeadio Hern.

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Verlag
Harvard University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0674576411
ISBN 13 
9780674576414
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