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Journal articles on the topic "Japan Civilization European influences"
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Ōkubo, Takeharu. "International Law and its Influence on Diplomacy in the Late Nineteenth Century Japan." Mirai. Estudios Japoneses 3 (July 5, 2019): 23–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/mira.64980.
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In 1853 United States warships led by Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) came to Japan to negotiate a commercial treaty. This event had suddenly thrust late-nineteenth-century Japan into a web of relations with the Western nations, and as a result, European international law was a topic of particularly urgent concern including some normative philosophical questions: What is Civilization? What are the rules in international relations? What are the differences with the existing order in East Asia?
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Takechi, H. "History of prostheses and orthoses in Japan." Prosthetics and Orthotics International 16, no. 2 (August 1992): 98–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/03093649209164319.
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Until the first contact with European civilization in 1543, prostheses and orthoses were not seen in Japanese medical history. Some physicians and surgeons who studied medicine in the Dutch language understood about prostheses and orthoses before the opening of the country in 1868. From 1868 to the end of World War II (1945), prostheses and orthoses were influenced by German orthopaedic surgery. From the latter half of the 1960s the research and development of these have been advanced, because of the establishment of a domestic rehabilitation system, international cultural exchange and economic development.
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Worringer, Renée. "“SICK MAN OF EUROPE” OR “JAPAN OF THE NEAR EAST”?: CONSTRUCTING OTTOMAN MODERNITY IN THE HAMIDIAN AND YOUNG TURK ERAS." International Journal of Middle East Studies 36, no. 2 (May 2004): 207–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743804362033.
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The [Japanese] government, adorned with great intelligence and ideological firmness in progress, has implemented and promoted European [methods] of commerce and industry in its own country, and has turned the whole of Japan into a factory of progress, thanks to many [educational institutions]; it has attempted to secure and develop Japan's capacity for advancement by using means to serve the needs of the society such as benevolent institutions, railways, and in short, innumerable modes of civilization.—Malumat, mouthpiece for Yıldız Palace, 1897We should take note of Japan, this nation which has become rivals with the Great Powers in thirty to forty years. One should pay attention to that—that a nation not separating patriotic public spirit and the good of the homeland from its life is surely such that [though] sustaining wounds, setting out against any type of danger that threatens its existence, it certainly preserves its national independence. The Japanese successes of Port Arthur…are a product of this patriotic zeal.—Şura-yı Ümmet, Ottoman newspaper, Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), 1904While the despot of Turkey and the despot of Russia tremble and hide…it has come to pass in the Far East among this admirable people that, like the Turks, have been treated…as barbarians…[that] the Japanese tended to develop in all the Far East their material and moral influences, “to make themselves the guardians, otherwise the masters, of the yellow world.”…And that is how one has to see this vast intellectual and moral organization…. They whose civilization, achieved in half a century, has become superior to European civilization which has fallen into decay; they who do not have to reproach massacres, who do not have to gag any mouths out of which a liberal word came, who do not have to exile or suppress patriots…. Indeed, for our part, it is this “yellow” civilization that we wish to see universalized because it is the fruit of a principled, faithful and highly intelligent organization, because it is based on a conception of human destinies that excludes holy icons and false sentimentalities, because, above all, it is the daughter of a constitutional government which Ottoman patriots—all their efforts striving for this goal—will conclude by understanding the absolute necessity for the poor Turkish people that Hamidian terrorism be plunged into the mire.—Mechveret Supplément Français, French organ of the CUP, 1905
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Lakishyk, Dmytro. "U.S. European foreign policy vector (50-60s of the XX century)." American History & Politics Scientific edition, no. 7 (2019): 16–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2521-1706.2019.07.16-27.
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The article argues that the United States entered the post-war world in a completely new role for the state, surpassed all other countries in the main indicators of strength – military, economic, technological and cultural. World wars turned them into the center of Western civilization, which opposed Soviet power, which secured significant spheres of influence in Eastern Europe and the Far East as a result of World War II. It is argued that the main areas of geopolitical rivalry between the two centers of power are the regions that are on the periphery of Eurasia: the clash line in Europe, the Middle and the Far East. Throughout the entire period of rivalry, the United States has transformed from an episodic into a constant factor in European politics, institutionalizing its presence in the Old World and building relations with Western European allies on the basis of “Atlantism”, “interdependence” and “burden sharing”. It was proved that the main task of the US administrations in the post-war period was the creation of a “power perimeter” around the zone of Soviet control, maintaining its functioning and further strengthening. First, its line ran in Europe, then in East Asia, and later was expanded to the Middle East, having adequate support with American military bases and military-political blocs. It is noted that the confrontation between the two superpowers took place including the alternation of conflict and cooperation, reflected the desire of the victors to consolidate the subordinate position of the defeated – mainly Germany and Japan – in the new system of international relations. Carrying out “containment” of the USSR, the USA actually implemented a policy of “double containment”, directed both against the potential strengthening of Germany and in order to maintain control over Western Europe as a whole. In this regard, the consolidation of “spheres of influence” of each of the parties preserved the results of the war, providing “silent cooperation” on issues of principle.
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REIFMAN, BORIS V. "Visual Complexity in Japanese and European Cinema of the 1950s–1960s: Stylistic and Semantic Similarities and Differences." Art and Science of Television 18, no. 3 (2022): 179–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.30628/1994-9529-2022-18.3-179-202.
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In this article, I study the stylistic features of Japanese cinematography of the middle of the twentieth century, which was introduced to European critics and the general public in the 1950s. The cinematic style of the analyzed Japanese films is associated with the concept of visual complexity, borrowed from Le Fanu’s book Mizoguchi and Japan (Le Fanu, 2018). One of the manifestations of visual complexity in the films of Kenji Mizoguchi, YasujiroOzu, early Akira Kurosawa and other Japanese film directors of the ’50s, is that the viewer, experiencing anxiety and disharmony, is forced to build up in his mind an image, that is difficult to identify in the first moments of its screen existence, to regognizable objectivity. Another interesting aspect of visual complexity is the motionless long shots taken by a camera distanced from the object of observation—seemingly impassive, but at the same time bringing the viewer to a high degree of tension. These manifestations of visual complexity in Japanese cinema are compared to the outwardly similar forms created in the same period or somewhat later by such European film modernists and representatives of the American New Hollywood as Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Andrei Tarkovsky, Stanley Kubrick and, mainly, Robert Bresson. However, analyzing primarily Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Monogatari (“Tales of Moonlight and Rain”) and relying on the article A Lesson in Japanese Film Style by André Bazin and works by Jean-Luc Godard, Mark Le Fanu and Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, I show that, in Bazin’s words, Japanese films do not so much give a sense of the style of the work that characterizes their authors as they express the anonymous “artistic spirit of a distinct civilization” (as cited in Le Fanu, 2018, p. 179). This means that Japanese cinema of the period under study contains artistic traditions that were formed and developed long before the birth of cinema to a much more pronounced degree than European and American auteur cinema. In particular, Japanese cinematography is obviously influenced by theatrical traditions, primarily Noh, the ancient traditions of making folding screens, tapestries, and erotic miniatures. All this, in turn, is a part of Japanese mentality rather than of Japanese intellectual culture. And this largely distinguishes Japanese cinema from formally similar European and American film modernism, predetermined not so much by mental factors and old cultural traditions as by contemporary intellectual discourses, primarily existentialist and Christian-personalist philosophy.
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Pyrogov, V. "Derivatization of the Word-forming Model “OWN-ALIEN”in the Japanese Language against the Background of Historical Dynamics of theJapanese Writing System Forms Development: Diachronic and Syncronic Aspects." Studia Linguistica, no. 12 (2018): 98–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/studling2018.12.98-110.
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The paper attempts to study the conditions of historical origin and subsequent derivatization of the basic word-formation model “own-alien” in the Japanese language against the background of historical dynamics of the Japanese writing system development. Despite the fact that Japan and the Japanese are considered genetically isolated from the rest of the world, they repeatedly had to face the influence of external factors, in particular, to perceive and assimilate the norms and stereotypes of foreign cultures and languages, while preserving their national identity and integrity, and at the same time, to improve their own language and culture, resulting in the formation of a highly original and unique language that can be characterized as syncretic – Japanese-Chinese – with inclusion at present time of lexical elements from European languages, mainly English. The Japanese pattern of thinking has been periodically restructured throughout the history of the formation and development of their civilization. And every time at the moment of cardinal transformation of their culture one of the important if not the main factor was writing system, which served as a special mean of adjusting their culture and mentality. In recent decades, the algorithm of Japanese thinking has changed, adapting to the conditions of a new historical format (which corresponds to the synchronous type of thinking), while the Japanese writing largely preserves the traditional form, which corresponds mainly to the archaic type of thinking. As a result, objective cultural and psychological contradictions arise, and at the same time a need to find a way out of this difficult situation emerges, perhaps by further reforming the existing system of writing, creating a more adequate system of written signs that would correspond to the imperatives of the modern socio-cultural paradigm.
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DIACONESCU, Luca, and Mirela Elena MAZILU. "CHINDIA THE TITANS' CHANGE HAS COME." Revista Română de Geografie Politică 23, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 29–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.30892/rrgp.231104-347.
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Indian and Chinese civilizations have economically dominated the world for 15 centuries, when they are overtaken by: Europe, America, Russia, the Arab states, Brazil, Mexico or Japan, shamefully entering a shadow cone that stretched 3-4 centuries. Towards the end of the twentieth century they begin to matter again, and during the twenty-first century it seems that they will replace the European Union and the United States, dividing the planet into two major spheres of influence, avoiding regionalization on religious or civilizational criteria or the multipolar world predicted by some geopolitics, so China will represent the continuity of the planned and agile economy of the USSR, but with a high dose of determination found locally in the Japanese and Koreans, while India will be the 3rd West after the end of world domination by Western Europe and the USA, based on democracy, parliament, federalism and the individual economy but also characteristics specific to the states of the planetary geopolitical south.
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Shahabuddin, Mohammad. "The ‘standard of civilization’ in international law: Intellectual perspectives from pre-war Japan." Leiden Journal of International Law 32, no. 01 (November 19, 2018): 13–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0922156518000559.
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AbstractThis article establishes the normative connection between Japan’s responses to regional hegemonic order prior to the nineteenth century and its subsequent engagement with the European standard of civilization. I argue that the Japanese understanding of the ‘standard of civilization’ in the nineteenth century was informed by the historical pattern of its responses to hegemony and the discourse on cultural superiority in the Far East that shifted from Sinocentrism to the unbroken Imperial lineage to the national-spirit. Although Japanese scholars accepted and engaged with the European standard of civilization after the forced opening up of Japan to the Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, they did so for instrumental purposes and soon translated ‘civilization’ into a language of imperialism to reassert supremacy in the region. Through intellectual historiography, this narrative contextualizes Japan’s engagement with the European standard of civilization, and offers an analytical framework not only to go beyond Eurocentrism but also to identify various other loci of hegemony, which are connected through the same language of power.
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Gozzi, Gustavo. "History of International Law and Western Civilization." International Community Law Review 9, no. 4 (2007): 353–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187197407x261386.
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AbstractThis paper discusses the origins 19th-century international law through the works of such scholars as Bluntschli, Lorimer, and Westlake, and then traces out its development into the 20th century. Nineteenth-century international law was forged entirely in Europe: it was the expression of a European consciousness and culture, and was geographically located within the community of European peoples, which meant a community of Christian, and hence "civilized," peoples. It was only toward the end of the 19th century that an international law emerged as the expression of a "global society," when the Ottoman Empire, China, and Japan found themselves forced to enter the regional international society revolving around Europe. Still, these nations stood on an unequal footing, forming a system based on colonial relations of domination. This changed in the post–World War II period, when a larger community of nations developed that was not based on European dominance. This led to the extended world society we have today, made up of political systems profoundly different from one another because based on culture-specific concepts. So in order for a system to qualify as universal, it must now draw not only on Western but also on non-Western forms, legacies, and concepts.
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Tikhonov, Vladimir. "THE 1890S KOREAN REFORMERS' VIEW OF JAPAN – A MENACING MODEL?" International Journal of Asian Studies 2, no. 1 (December 10, 2004): 57–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1479591405000033.
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This paper explores the nuances of the perceptions of Japan by Korea's reformist press of the late 1890s, chiefly by Tongnip sinmun (1896–1899, edited by So Chaep'il and Yun Ch'iho). The main finding of the paper is that, despite the Christian reformists' avowed allegiance to the USA as their ideal model of “civilization”, Japan was taken as a practical model – an example of how a fellow East Asian country, which was supposedly “30 years ago even more backward than Korea”, could succeed in “civilizing” itself. At the same time, reformists' nationalist reaction against domineering “colonial” behavior of the Japanese inside Korea often took the form of an appeal to “international” – read “American”/“European” – “standards of civilization”. The conclusion the study of some of the earliest forms of Korea's Westernizing nationalism leads us to is that the “Occidentalist” worldview of the early Christian nationalist reformers was a complex, multi-layered and often self-contradictory phenomenon, in which “oppressive” features are not easily distinguishable from “liberational” ones. Its key treatment – the prettified, essentialized picture of the “Occident”, believed to be the only “true”, “ideal” civilization – could work “oppressively” as it put Korea's traditional culture in the position of “barbarism” to be exorcized, while looking “emancipatory” when used as the yardstick for criticism of Japanese encroachment.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Japan Civilization European influences"
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Sugawara, Yosei. "Silence and avoidance: Japanese expatriate adjustment." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/682.
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Svanidze, Tamara. "Les transferts culturels européens en Géorgie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle à travers la presse de l’époque." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016INAL0007.
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Cette thèse a pour ambition de montrer dans quelle mesure la presse géorgienne de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle qui constitue une source historique précieuse sur cette période, permet de suivre l’évolution des transferts culturels européens et de cerner le profil social et politique des médiateurs géorgiens de ces transferts. Elle s’intéresse aux discours qui accompagnent l’introduction du mode de vie moderne et du progrès technique, aux réactions suscitées par le regard que les Européens portent sur la Géorgie, mais aussi à l’expérience que les Géorgiens rapportent de leurs séjours en Europe. En effet, ces voyages, qui leur permettent d’observer la vie politique et sociale européenne et d’établir des contacts avec les milieux intellectuels, s’inscrivent dans la perspective de contribuer, de retour dans leur patrie, au succès du projet politique auquel, désormais, ils s’identifient. Notre travail accorde une place importante à l’étude des mécanismes qui rendent possibles les flux d’importation dans le domaine de la littérature et des sciences : institution d’un champ intellectuel, élaboration d’une nouvelle terminologie, mise en place de critères de sélection des textes étrangers et stratégies discursives facilitant leur diffusion. En élucidant ces critères, qui conduisent à la sélection des textes et des auteurs européens ou au choix des références à l’Europe, nous nous attachons à analyser dans quelle mesure les transferts se font le reflet d’un contexte historique caractérisé par la formation d’une conscience nationale et d’idéologies concurrentes qui, dès les premières années du XXe siècle, conduiront la Géorgie de la révolution à l'indépendanceThis dissertation aims to show in what measure the Georgian press of the second half of the nineteenth century, which constitutes a precious historical resource for study of this time period, allows us to follow the evolution of cultural transfers from Georgia to Europe and to understand the political and social profile of the Georgian mediators of these transfers. It manifests an interest in the discourses that accompany the introduction of modern living and technological progress in the country, in the reactions inspired by the European perspective on Georgia, and also in the experience that the Georgians bring back home after their travels in Europe. In fact, these travels allow them to observe European political and social life and to establish contacts with intellectual milieus in order to contribute, when they return to their country, to the success of the political projects with which they would identify. My work centers on the mechanisms that have made possible the flow of foreign cultural transmission in the fields of literature and science: the institution of an intellectual field, the elaboration of a new terminology, the establishment of selection criteria for foreign texts, and the establishment of discursive strategies facilitating the diffusion of such texts. In elucidating these criteria, which lead to the selection of European texts and authors or to the choice of references to Europe, I will analyze in what measure the transfers reflect a historical context characterized by the formation of a national consciousness and competing ideologies that, from the beginning years of the twentieth century, would lead Georgia from revolution to independence
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Nakamura, Ellen Louise Gardner. "Takano Chōei and his country friends : a receptive history of rangaku." Phd thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147222.
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Culy, Anna M. "Clothing their identities : competing ideas of masculinity and identity in Meiji Japanese culture." 2013. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1721294.
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This is an in-depth analysis of competing cultural ideas at a pivotal time in Japanese history through study of masculinity and identity. Through diaries, newspaper articles, and illustrations found in popular periodicals of the Meiji period, it is evident that there were two major groups who espoused very different sets of ideals competing for the favor of the masses and the control of Japanese progress in the modern world. Manner of dress, comportment, hygiene, and various other parts of outward appearance signified the mentality and ideology of the person in question. One group espoused traditional Japanese ideas of masculinity and dress while another advocated embracing Western dress and culture. This, in turn, explained their opinions on the direction they believed Japan should take. Throughout the Meiji period (1868-1912), the two ideas grew and competed for supremacy until the late Meiji period when they merged to form a traditional-minded modernity.Department of History
Books on the topic "Japan Civilization European influences"
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García, Pilar Garcés, and Lourdes Terrón Barbosa. Itinerarios, viajes y contactos Japón-Europa. Bern: Peter Lang, 2013.
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Die Erfindung Japans: Kulturelle Wechselwirkung und nationale Identitätskonstruktion. Frankfurt/Main: Campus, 2000.
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Proust, Jacques. L' Europe au prisme du Japon: XVIe-XVIIIe siècle : entre humanisme, Contre-Réforme et Lumières. Paris: A. Michel, 1997.
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Gulbenkian, Centro cultural Calouste, École française d'Extrême-Orient, and École pratique des hautes études (France), eds. Empires éloignés: L'Europe et le Japon (XVIe-XIXe siècle). Paris: Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2010.
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Heide, Fehrenbach, and Poiger Uta G. 1965-, eds. Transactions, transgressions, transformations: American culture in Western Europe and Japan. New York: Berghahn Books, 2000.
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Europe through the prism of Japan: Sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
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O'Connor, Martin. The New Zealand European connection. Wellington, N.Z: Grantham House, 1989.
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Boxer, C. R. "Notes on Early European Military Influences in Japan, 1543–1853." In Warfare and Empires, 109–38. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315234373-7.
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Winter, Tim. "Japan as Asia?" In The Silk Road, 47–60. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197605059.003.0004.
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To address the bias toward European scholars in the many accounts of Silk Road scholarship, this chapter focuses on Meiji-era Japan. It will be seen that for a rapidly industrializing country engaged in international conflicts, a debate emerges around national identity and culture and the degree to which narratives of history should include connections to Asia. This leads to scholars and public intellectuals debating the cultural and religious influences that have shaped Japan and the “routes” by which they traveled. This discussion provides a foundation for understanding how the Silk Road comes to be shaped in the second half of the twentieth century as its popularity in Japan grows, a situation that influences international discourses at the end of the Cold War.
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Heere, Cees. "A War for Civilization." In Empire Ascendant, 46–77. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837398.003.0003.
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The Russo-Japanese War (1904–5) marked a watershed in global history. Victory over Russia secured Japan’s position as the first Asian ‘great power’. But it also raised an acute debate over the meaning and implications of its sudden rise. Some praised the Japanese victory as the triumph of ‘civilization’ over Russian barbarism; others pointed ominously to the effect that the destruction of a ‘white power’ would have on the collective European colonial project in Asia. Policymakers, both in London and its self-governing colonies, were forced to reckon with the implications of Japan’s bid for equality. In the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War, Britain, Canada, and Australia all took symbolic steps to demonstrate their willingness to recognize Japan as a co-equal member of the international system.
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Linklater, Andrew. "Civilization, Diplomacy and the Enlargement of International Society." In The Idea of Civilization and the Making of the Global Order, 151–86. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529213874.003.0006.
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This chapter explains how civilized standards were globalized as a result of the mimetic behaviour of non-European regimes. Top- down civilizing offensives in China, Japan, Siam, Russia and the Ottoman empire/Turkish Republic are examined to explore dominant patterns of change in the global order. Modernizing regimes set out to reform state structures in the light of European conceptions of civilization. They altered traditional diplomatic mores in order to comply with European conventions. Some engaged in mimetic colonialism to demonstrate their civilized credentials and to press claims to be admitted into international society as equal sovereign powers. The overall pattern of change illustrates Elias’s thesis about how established groups seek to persuade outsiders to internalise feelings of inferiority and to modify behaviour accordingly. As Elias recognised, European notions of civilization spread outward to non-European elites but new social arrangements appeared in the process. The chapter discusses the development of novel combinations of nation and civilization that laid the foundation for challenges to the European global order which accelerated from the middle of the twentieth century.
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Nakayama, Izumi. "Gender, Health, and the Problem of “Precocious Puberty” in Meiji Japan." In Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390908.003.0002.
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Mishima Michiyoshi, a Japanese pioneer of school hygiene, believed that Japanese children experienced precocious puberty, resulting in underdeveloped and inferior physical stature in comparison to European and American children. This analysis of comparative anatomies interpreted the inferiority of the “Japanese” body as embodiment of its diminutive status in politics and civilizations. This chapter shows how intellectuals, government bureaucrats, school hygienists, and pediatric specialists viewed and interpreted children’s bodies and their physical growth, illustrating the complex interactions between ideals of civilization and gendered norms in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japan.
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Jasionowicz, Stanisław. "Leopold Leon Sawaszkiewicz et Ignacy Pietraszewski à la recherche de l’identité orientale des Polonais." In Pensées orientale et occidentale: influences et complémentarité II, 157–77. Ksiegarnia Akademicka Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/9788381383950.09.
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In Le génie de l’Orient..., published in Brussels in 1846, Leopold Leon Sawaszkiewicz presents the collection and work of the Polish collector and connoisseur of Oriental cultures Ignacy Pietraszewski, who translated the Zend-Avesta – the holy book of Zoroastrianism – from Persian into Polish, French, and German. Sawaszkiewicz uses Pietraszewski’s rich collection of Islamic numismatics as a jumping-off point for numerous observations on the relations between the West and the East, from the perspective of the historic ties between the Poles – bound for nearly a millennium to Western Christian values – and the Turkish, Arab, Persian, and even Indian Orient, in which they searched, aside from artistic and literary inspiration, for traces of their own deep cultural and ethnic roots. This view of the rootedness of Polish culture in the universe of an apparently/actually distant imagination and mentality, makes it possible to reconsider the present conditions for honest and substantive dialogue between these different cultural and geopolitical regions. Sawaszkiewicz’s and Pietraszewski’s visions of the Orient, conceived at a time when the existing geopolitical order was confronted with the (re)birth of European national identity myths, bear witness to the active participation of Polish intellectuals in the debate on the foundations and future of Western civilization.
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Holland, Robert. "The Cult of Beauty." In The Warm South, 192–224. Yale University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300235920.003.0006.
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This chapter details British engagement with the Mediterranean from 1890 to 1918. It has been argued that cultural despair was the distinguishing mark of modernism in the British compared to their European and North American counterparts, where a generally upbeat tone was more evident. Since the age of the Grand Tour, a pathology deeply marked by Mediterranean influences had characterized British culture. Thus, it was only logical that this remained true entering the twentieth century, and that despair and a sense of national fragility remained part of the mix. That hallmark characteristic had various roots, but critical to it was a continuing apprehension that the British remained unique as a leading European power in lacking an authentic, mature civilization of their own.
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Özgür, Selim. "The Aletic Republic – A Fictional World as Inspiration for the Real World Beyond Borders." In At the Crossroads of the East and the West: The Problem of Borderzone in Russian and Central European Cultures, 469–79. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/4465-3095-3.22.
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In our everyday life, as we work or travel, we are always confronted with many kinds of borders: political ones when we travel to other countries, or cultural ones, when we meet people with different backgrounds or lifestyles. We generally take these borders as something natural or let alone as something sacrosanct. And although in the Western civilization, we are aware of the fact that we have big difficulties in accepting the other‘s point of view or her way of life, we rather reinforce the borders and isolate ourselves from influences alien for our traditional or so-called pristine world. How could people of different cultures, religions, or languages manage to live together in the most harmonic way possible? Music is one kind of art which inspires and unites people across borders, but so does imagination: The Aletic Republic as a fictional republic transcends a world from imagination into a tangible place full of persons, landscapes, stories, poetry, and moods.
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Ferrone, Vincenzo. "Historians and Philosophers." In The Enlightenment, translated by Elisabetta Tarantino. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691175768.003.0001.
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This chapter examines the peculiarity of the Enlightenment as a category in the history of Western culture by highlighting the important differences and points of contact and reciprocal influences between the views of the Enlightenment held by philosophers and those held by historians. It considers efforts in the twentieth century to analyze the “Enlightenment question,” which proved pivotal in the study of the rise of modern European civilization. It also discusses the double nature of the eighteenth-century epistemological paradigm, caught between history and philosophy, as well as its unique historiographical character. Finally, it shows how, at the end of the eighteenth century, the Enlightenment opposed a brand new philosophy of history to a centuries-old theology of history.
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Sheppard, W. Anthony. "Beat and Square Cold War Encounters." In Extreme Exoticism, 317–71. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072704.003.0009.
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This chapter is focused on the transnational influences of Japanese music during the Cold War and on music’s role in U.S. cultural diplomacy efforts aimed at Japan. This includes examples of numerous American jazz musicians (David Brubeck, Duke Ellington, Herbie Mann) who were sent to Japan and who created musical “impressions” of their experience. A primary focus in on the 1961 Tokyo East-West Music Encounter organized by Nicolas Nabokov and attended by multiple American composers (Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Colin McPhee) and scholars (Robert Garfias). The chapter then details the broad influence of gagaku on European (Messiaen, Stockhausen, Xenakis) and American composers, focusing particularly on Alan Hovhaness. Experimental composers, such as Richard Teitelbaum, inspired by John Cage’s engagement with Zen also turned toward Japan. The chapter concludes with an extended discussion of the role of Japanese music and Japanese composers (particularly Toru Takemitsu) in the career of Roger Reynolds.
Conference papers on the topic "Japan Civilization European influences"
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Hirano, Yuji, Daisuke Kihira, and Yukiyoshi Oishi. "AB0426 COMPARISON OF INFLUENCES OF DIFFERENT CONCOMITANT DRUGS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS PATIENTS TREATED WITH IGURATIMOD, A CONVENTIONAL SYNTHETIC DISEASE-MODIFYING ANTI-RHEUMATIC DRUG DEVELOPED IN JAPAN, IN REAL-WORLD CLINICAL SETTING." In Annual European Congress of Rheumatology, EULAR 2019, Madrid, 12–15 June 2019. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/annrheumdis-2019-eular.1682.
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