Contents: 1. The way we are 2. Constitution and administration 3. The legal system 4. Implementation of the Sino-British Joint declaration 5. The economy 6. Financial and monetary affairs etc.
In a rare combination of comprehensive coverage and sustained critical focus, this book examines Japanese history in its entirety to identify the factors underlying the nation's progression to superpower status. Japan's achievement is explained not merely in economic terms, but at a more fundamental level, as a product of historical patterns of response to circumstance. Japan is shown to be a n…
This newly revised volume drawn from Professor Hane’s classic text, Japan: A Historical Survey, presents a rich account of early Japanese history for students. Important elements of early Japanese history persist in present-day Japan more tenaciously than is sometimes realized. Hane traces the key developments of Japanese history in the premodern period, including the establishment of the imp…
Japan: From Prehistory to Modern Times traces the principal threads of Japan's political and cultural life from early times through the mid-twentieth century. In an informative and engaging narrative, the author presents a carefully balanced and authoritative picture of Japan's transformation from a secluded, little known and backward country, with a fundamentally "Eastern" culture, to one of t…
More than any other historical source, stone inscription provide firsthand information on the public activities of local government and elites in imperial China. In this first English language collection, the author presents a selection of stone inscriptions dating from the Sung dynasty along with translations and analyses of stone texts found in the Fukien province. Contents: 1. Stone record…
The contents of this book: 1. Encounters, 1860s to 1940s 2. Friend to Foe? New Zealand and Japan, 1900-1937 3. New Zealand, Japan, and the Twenty-year Last Contest of Empire, 1931-1951 4. New Zealand Perceptions of Japan, 1945-1965, etc.
Bushido quite literally means "the way of the warrior", and this is the general term for any one of a number of different codes adopted by Japan's warrior elite the samurai from the Middle Ages to the modern period. The golden age of samurai and bushido was already long gone by the time Inazo Nitobe penned his work "Bushido: The Soul of Japan," but its values remained. Nitobe evoked the eight …
A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.
The contents of this book: - The Sudden Massive Influx of Continental Culture in the Late Fourth Century - The Starting Point of Yamato Wa - The Massive Inflow of Paekche People in the Fifth Century - Leaders of the Invasion Force
On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals how the most important decisions wer…