Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan
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Review
Working from Japanese and Korean archives, the author has painstakingly amassed a detailed picture of the early modern Tsushima-Pusan frontier, encompassing Kyongsang Province, Tsushima Island, and the waters in between....All told, Frontier Contact offers a series of discrete closeups of an important borderland that most Japanese historians have hitherto glimpsed only from a distance. Lewis's research into Korean views of the Japanese proves particularly revealing. Unusually well supplied with maps, tables, appendices, and a trilingual glossary, and fairly bristling throughout with archival detail, the book offers a rich empirical feast.
-Journal of Japanese Studies
Book Description
Focusing on the period 1600-1900, this ground-breaking work presents Korean history as a tension between structures and agents. It examines economy, demography, and mentalities and focuses on Korean and Japanese attitudes towards each other forged at their point of contact on the frontier. The book argues that frontier contact in the pre-modern world was at least as important for the formation of cultural perceptions and historical memory as the writings of intellectuals far away in national centres. It raises questions about pre-modern self-perceptions and the processes by which perceptions were formed of other peoples. It also links local history with transnational relations and presents East Asian pre-modern history in a completely new light.
Frontier Contact Between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan,James B. Lewis,RoutledgeCurzon,0700713018,1637-1864,Asia - General,Asia - Korea,History,History: World,International Relations - General,Japan,Korea,Modern - General,Politics / Current Events,Relations,Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900,Cultural studies,History / Japan,International relations,c 1600 to c 1700,c 1700 to c 1800,c 1800 to c 1900
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