内容紹介
Marius B. Jansen was America’s preeminent historian of modern Japan. He was admired in Japan and Europe, as well as in the United States, not only for his contributions to the study of Japanese history, but for the way he tied Japan’s historical experience to the larger frames of inter-Asian, trans-Pacific, and indeed global history. The essays collected together in this book, written in honor of Jansen by old friends and former students, are centered on major themes running throughout his work. Four essays look at historiography and changing frameworks for interpreting Japan’s modernization, the rapid transition from feudal Tokugawa society to modern industrial power in just a few decades. Two others emulate Jansen’s commitment to history rooted in the particulars of local life, while the remaining pieces exemplify Jansen’s focus on the relationship between Japan and its various worldsムthe many complex, overlapping, and often synergistic relationships between Japan, its Asian neighbors, and the wider world.
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The Japan Times, January 27, 2008Making Japan ‘borderless’ Chapter I: Becoming Borderless was major ambition in Jansen’s work and this theme is discussed in papers by Patricia Steinhoff, and M. William Steel, as well as Tom Havens and Hiroshi Mitani. Jansen’s interest in the differences between “Local and National” (Chapter II) is reflected in essays by Patricia Sippel and Henry D. Smith II. The latter’s paper is about Jansen’s interest in the histrical figure about which he wrote one of his finest works, Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration. One of the most interesting sections of the book concerns “Japan and aIts Worlds” (Chapter III) , the way in which the two react to each other. There are essays by Ronald P. Toby, F. G. Notehelfer, Martin Collcutt, Tao De-min, and Ben-Ami Shillony. Fitting, the collection includes Jansen’s own Kyoto conference paper, and ends with tributes by friends, students and colleaguesofferings by Homma Nagayo, George R. Packard, Toru Haga, and a touching essay by Mikio Kato about Jansen and his beloved home away from home, the International House of Japan. Donald Richie