The Japanese Discovery of Europe, 1720-1830 - Hardcover

Keene, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0804706689 ISBN 13: 9780804706681

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 1969

Synopsis

Originally published in 1952, this account of the growth and uses of Western learning in Japan has been enlarged by two new chapters that extend the story from 1798 to 1830. The author has incorporated the results of recent research by scholars in Japan and the West and made corrections in the text.

About this title

About the Author:

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841, and the definitive multi-volume history of Japanese literature, Sources of Japanese Tradition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 1969
• ISBN 10: 0804706689
• ISBN 13: 9780804706681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272