| Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia Contributor(s): Esenbel |
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ISBN: 9004274308 ISBN-13: 9789004274303 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $136.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - Japan |
| Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.1" W x 9.4" (1.50 lbs) 390 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese - Chronological Period - Modern - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Japan on the Silk Road provides for the first time the historical background indispensable for understanding Japan's current perspectives and policies in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the Silk Road, involving Japan in the Great Game and exploring ancient civilizations.The book exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism. Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China at the same time reveal a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism and transnationality. The global team of scholars brings to light Japan's intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China. Contributors include: Ian Nish, Christopher Szpilman, Sven Saaler, Selcuk Esenbel, Li Narangoa, Komatsu Hisao, Brij Tankha, Erdal K kyalcın, A. Merthan D ndar, Katayama Akio, Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Klaus R hborn, Mehmet lmez, Banu Kaygusuz, Oğuz Baykara, and Satō Masako. |