China in the Tokugawa World / / Marius B. Jansen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Jansen, Marius B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Series: The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures ; 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (137 p.) :; 10 halftones
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Illustrations --; 1. The Contacts --; 2. Dimensions of the Image --; 3. The Meiji Aftermath --; Bibliographical Note. Index --; Bibliographical Note --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674184763; 9783110649772; 9783110353488; 9783110353563; 9783110442212
• DOI: 10.4159/harvard.9780674184763
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Marius B. Jansen.

This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the modern era. This familiar story of seclusion, argues master historian Marius B. Jansen, results from viewing the period soley in terms of Japan's ties with the West, at the expense of its relationship with closer Asian neighbors. Taking as his focus the port of Nagasaki and its thriving trade with China in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries, Jansen not only corrects this misperception but offers an important analysis of the impact of the China trade on Japan's cultural, economic, and political life.