David N. Wells

Russian Views of Japan, 1792-1913 (eBook, ePUB)

An Anthology of Travel Writing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Before Japan was 'opened up' in the 1850s, contact with Russia as well as other western maritime nations was extremely limited. Yet from the early eighteenth century onwards, as a result of their expanding commercial interests in East Asia and the North Pacific, Russians had begun to encounter Japanese and were increasingly eager to establish diplomatic and trading relations with Japan. This book presents rare narratives written by Russians, including official envoys, scholars and, later, tourists, who visited Japan between 1792 and 1913. The introduction and notes set these narratives in the context of the history of Russo-Japanese relations and the genre of European travel writing, showing how the Russian writers combined ethnographic interests with the assertion of Russian and European values, simultaneously inscribing power relations and negotiating cultural difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134432073
• Artikelnr.: 38453312

Autorenporträt

David N. Wells is a senior librarian at Curtin University Library in Perth, Western Australia. He has published widely on Russian Literature, including two books on the poetry of Anna Akhmatova. He is joint editor (with Sandra Wilson) of The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspectives, 1904-05.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Journal of Laxman's Embassy to Japan (Ezo
1792-3) 2. Voyage Round the World (Nagasaki
1804-5) 3. Narrative of My Captivity in Japan (Ezo
1811) 4. The Frigate Pallada (Nagasaki
1853) 5. News from Japan (Edo
1859) 6. In the East (Hakodate
1860) 7. Around Asia (Nagasaki
1880) 8. On the Japanese Railways (Nagoya
1890) 9. Around the Islands of the Far East (Nagasaki
1892) 10. Around Korea
Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula (Nagasaki
Yokohama
1898) 11. The Price of Blood (Kyoto
1905) 12. My First Day in Japan (Gifu
1913)