Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Conroy, Hilary

Titel

Seikan Ron: Insult, Revenge and a Long Shadow

Ist Teil von

• The Japanese Seizure of Korea, 1868-1910, 2016, p.17-77

Auflage

949.61

Ort / Verlag

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The Meiji Restoration (1868) was for Japan a momentous event. The forces for political, social, economic, and cultural change which it unleashed transformed an archaic feudal society into a modern state at a pace which still leaves historians breathless. There is a glory of achievement about it which is apt, however, to blind those who study it to the fact that, along with the political power and prestige which it brought to its leaders, it also brought shame. For, with their decision to modernize Japan and do business with the Western world, the samurai architects of the Restoration violated their