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Articulating the Sinosphere
副标题: Sino-Japanese Relations in Space and Time
ISBN: 9780674032590
出版社: Harvard University Press
出版年: 2009-3-31
页数: 216
定价: USD 42.50
装帧: Hardcover
内容简介
Joshua Fogel offers an incisive historical look at Sino-Japanese
relations from three different perspectives. Using first a wide lens,
he suggests a new way to capture the relationship between China and
Japan by characterizing the nature of their contact. From the first
century ce, the primary reasons for contact moved from political and
ceremonial to cultural, and on to commercial ties. This period ends
at the dawn of the modern age, when contacts involved treaties,
consulates, and international law. Switching to a microhistorical
view, Fogel examines several important behind-the-scenes players in
the launching of the countries’ modern diplomatic relations. He
focuses on the voyage of the Senzaimaru from Nagasaki to Shanghai in
1862—the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in the modern
era—and the Dutchman who played an important intermediary role.
Finally, he examines the first expatriate Japanese community in the
modern era, in Shanghai from the 1860s to the mid-1890s, when the
first Sino-Japanese War erupted. Introducing the concept of
“Sinosphere” to capture the nature of Sino-foreign relations both
spatially and temporally, Fogel presents an original and
thought-provoking study on the long, complex relationship between
China and Japan.
