TY - BOOK AU - Bremner,Lewis AU - Dotulong,Manimporok AU - Konishi,Sho TI - Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World T2 - Asian Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 SN - 9789004685208 AV - DS821.5.A1 U1 - 952 23 PY - 2024/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Japan KW - Civilization KW - Western influences KW - 1868- N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Front Matter -- Preliminary Material; Manimporok Dotulong and Sho Konishi -- Copyright Page; Manimporok Dotulong and Sho Konishi -- Acknowledgments and Permissions; Manimporok Dotulong and Sho Konishi -- Illustrations; Manimporok Dotulong and Sho Konishi -- Notes on Contributors; Manimporok Dotulong and Sho Konishi -- Introduction; Lewis Bremner and Manimporok Dotulong -- Part 1 Visions of Civilisation -- Chapter 1 The 1860 Japanese Embassy and the Opening of American Civilisation; Natalia Doan -- Chapter 2 Laughing at Civilisation; Warren A. Stanislaus -- Chapter 3 Minakata Kumagusu and the Microbial Turn in Theories of Evolution and Civilisation, 1887–1892; Eiko Honda -- Part 2 Life through the Opening -- Chapter 4 Opening the West with Japanese Mermaid Mummies; Mateja Kovacic -- Chapter 5 Hyakushō in the Arafura Zone; Manimporok Dotulong -- Chapter 6 The Transformation of Magic Lantern Technology in Nineteenth Century Japan; Lewis Bremner -- Chapter 7 Squaring Experiences with the Opening; Maki Fukuoka -- Part 3 From Particularity to Radical Universality -- Chapter 8 The Modern Closing of a Tokugawa-Era “Opening”; Sho Konishi -- Chapter 9 A Defeated Samurai of the Boshin Civil War and the Search for a New Universalism; Chinami Oka -- Chapter 10 Meiji Civil War Losers in Siam; Joel Littler -- Chapter 11 The “Second Ishin” and Kunikida Doppo’s Misunderstood Nature; Yu Sakai -- Part 4 Epilogue: Postwar Reflections -- Chapter 12 Something Like an Autobiography; Olga V. Solovieva -- Back Matter -- Index; Manimporok Dotulong and Sho Konishi N2 - The 'Opening of Japan' has been central to the retelling of Japan's modern history. Reopening the Opening of Japan fundamentally reconsiders what that historical moment entailed. What did intensified connections between Japan and the world mean both inside and outside of the country, and what does this tell us about Japan's historical significance on a global scale? The chapters excavate a rich array of surprising cross-border connections, from the global trade in mummified mermaids to the Japanese-Russian intellectual links underpinning the work of Akira Kurosawa. Re-thinking connectivity through non-state transnational perspectives, the book guides readers to new ways of doing and writing history. Contributors are: Lewis Bremner, Natalia Doan, Manimporok Dotulong, Maki Fukuoka, Eiko Honda, Sho Konishi, Mateja Kovacic, Joel Littler, Chinami Oka, Yu Sakai, Olga Solovieva, and Warren Stanislaus UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004685208 ER -