書名大敗筆：China in the Tokugawa World By Marius B. Jansen, 1992。搞成《德川日本》前衛，1996

China in the Tokugawa World

Marius B. Jansen, Professor Marius B Jansen

Harvard University Press, 1992 - 137 頁

This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the early modern era. This familiar story of seclusion, argues master historian Marius B. Jansen, results from viewing the period solely 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 the 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. Creating a vivid portrait of a city that lived on and for foreign trade, the author details Nagasaki's pivotal role in importing luxury goods for a growing Japanese market whose elite wanted more of everything that ships from China could bring. Silk, sugar, and ginseng were among the cargoes brought to Nagasaki as well as books that, by the late Tokugawa period, signaled the dangers of Western expansionism. The junks from China brought people as well as goods, and the author provides clear evidence of the influence of Chinese expatriates and visitors on Japanese religion, law, and art. Japan's intellectuals prided themselves on their full participation in the cultural milieu of the continental mainland, and for them China represented an ideal land of sages and tranquility. But gradually China came to represent, instead, a metaphor for the "other", as Japan's quest for a national identity intensified. Among the Japanese, a new image of their nation was beginning to emerge: a Japan superior to Asia in general and to China in particular.

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Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)^[1] was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.^[2]

Biography[edit]

Jansen was born in Vleuten in the Netherlands to Gerarda and Bartus Jansen, a florist who moved his family to Johnston, Rhode Island in the fall of 1923.^[3] Jansen grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton in 1943, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation. The same year, he began serving in the Army, studying Japanese and working in the Occupation of Japan.^[4] He took his PhD in history at Harvard in 1950, studying Japan with Edwin O. Reischauer and China with John K. Fairbank. His dissertation dealt with the interactions of the two countries and was published as The Japanese and Sun Yat Sen in 1954.^[5]

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[2] and president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1976. In 1999, Jansen was the first foreigner to be honored with the Distinguished Cultural Merit Award, given by the government of Japan.^[6]

Selected works[edit]

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Marius Jansen, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 300+ publications in 12 languages and 13,900+ library holdings.^[7]

The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (1954)
Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (1961)
Japan and Communist China in the Next Decade (1964)
Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (1965)
Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (1968) John Whitney Hall and Marius Jansen, eds. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Japan and its World: Two Centuries of Change (1975)
Japan and China: from War to Peace, 1894–1972 (1975)^[8]
Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji (1986)
China in the Tokugawa World (1992 ISBN 978-0-674-18476-3) [1]; DeGruyter 2014) The 1988 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Japanese Today: Change and Continuity (1995) Edwin O. Reischauer, Marius B. Jansen^[9]
The Making of Modern Japan (2000)^[10]

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The Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures is a series of lectures at Harvard University sponsored by the John King Fairbank Center established in 1986 to be given annually in memory of Edwin O. Reischauer. The lectures are then published by Harvard University Press.