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Biographical Portraits, Volume VII
Edited by Hugh Cortazzi
Published in association with the Japan Society
KEY FEATURE(S) This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions)
Contents include the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley, British military observer and Times reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton, philosophe... |
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Arthur W. Hummel
KEY FEATURE(S) Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the single indispensable reference tool for Chinese history since 1644. It was first published in 1943-44.
Contributors include: K Biggerstaff, H Dubs, JK Fairbank, Fang Chao-ying, LC Goodrich, Hu Shih, T Numata, E Swisher, Teng Ssu-yu, CM Wilbur, H Wilhelm Hummel’s biographical dictionary remains the sing... |
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EDITED and with an INTRODUCTION and ANNOTATIONS by Nigel Brailey
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
KEY FEATURE(S) First published in translation from the Japanese in 1952 prior to his mysterious disappearance in Laos in the 1960s, and long out of print, Colonel Tsuji’s account of his escape into Thailand (where he became a monk) from the Japanese surrender in Bangkok in 1945, and then finding his way into China before returning to Japan in 1948, is a highly entertaining and fascinating story, which has its place in the military history of the period.
‘The sights I saw and the things I heard in an Asia, writhing and struggling in a storm of Communism, form the contents of this book.’
Controversially Tsuji, who according to Louis Allen, was res... |
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Two Lives Lived Above and Below the Clouds
Dorothy Britton
KEY FEATURE(S) The opening chapters, originally published in condensed form, dealing with the early years of the princess, are now translated in full from the original autobiography, providing fresh new insights into the life and times of one of Japan's distinguished noble families and their daughter who was 'chosen' to be a princess.
First published in 1996, and long out of print, translator Dorothy Britton has now had access to additional sources enabling her in a new separate Appendix to address some of the key issues involving ... |
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Edward H. House
KEY FEATURE(S) First published in Boston in 1881 and rarely available today, Japanese Episodes reveals House as a writer, commentator and observer of things Japanese at his best and was to inspire Lafcadio Hearn in the same pursuit twenty years later.
Formerly a reporter for the New York Tribune, House was a respected journalist in the United States, and though later he became a paid apologist for the Japanese state in many of his writings, sought ... |
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The story of the Japanese Imperial Army’s longest WWII survivor in the field and later life
Omi Hatashin
KEY FEATURE(S) In 1972, when discovered by local hunters on Guam, former tailor Yokoi was widely reported as a ‘no surrender man’ who survived, living up to the old Japanese military code of honour.
This book is about the reality of such a man (and the ingenuity he applied to ensure his survival), which is very different from the stereotype. The first part is the English translation of his own au... |
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Aspects of the evolution of commerce in modern Japan, 1861-1910
Peter Davies
UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
KEY FEATURE(S) Given the scarcity of data relating to trade with Japan in this period, 1861-1912, the Cornes archive is of great significance, and a complete transcript on CD forms part of this volume, which in turn is supported for ease of reference by content summaries of each of the letters in both series.
Frederick Cornes was one of the most successful British import/export traders in Japan, not least in the early years of commerce with the West in the 1860s and 70s. Initially based on his expertise in... |
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EDITED by Toni Huberman, Sonia Ashmore, Yasuko Suga
KEY FEATURE(S) Charles Holme’s detailed record of his travels through Japan, including the homeward journey via the west coast of the US and Canada, is published here for the first time, together with all fifty plates from the original limited edition of his companion Emma Liberty’s Japan, A Pictorial Record, with commentaries. Both diary and photographs provide scholars and researchers with a rare archive.
A key figure in Europe’s art world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and founder of The Studio art magazine, Charles Holme was a significant disseminator of Japanese art and art go... |
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Hugh Cortazzi
Published in association with the Japan Society
KEY FEATURE(S) Global Oriental is pleased to announce the sixth volume in this highly acclaimed series of biographical portraits of British and Japanese personalities who over the past century and more have contributed in many different ways to Anglo-Japanese relations, including businessmen such as Sir Peter Parker and figures involved with Japanese investment in the UK such as Morita Akio of Sony and Honda Soichiro.
Political figures include Edward Heath and Winston Churchill; there is also an essay on Yoshida Shigeru's visit to London in 1954, and a portrait of political activist and writer Nitobe Inazo. Schola... |
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From Social Darwinism to ‘Socialism with a Buddhist Face’
Owen Miller and Vladimir Tikhonov
KEY FEATURE(S) This volume concentrates on translations of Han Yongun’s principal non-literary works, which are published here in English for the first time, focusing on his ideas for the revitalization of Korean Buddhism in the modern world, the nature of Buddhism as a religion, a critique of atheist movements fashionable among the communists of his time, together with his memoirs of his early life and travels.
One of Korea’s most eminent Buddhists and political activists in the independence movement during the long years of Japan’s colonization of his country, Han Yongun – sobriquet ‘Manhae’ (1879-1944), wa... |
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