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A grand sweep of the history of Sino-Japanese relations

Asia Maior, 2020, Vol.XXXI [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2020. Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the associated terms. This journal indicates that issues and single articles can be freely downloaded from the think tank webpage: www.asiamaior.org. ;ISSN: 2385-2526 ;EISSN: 2612-6680

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  • Title:
    A grand sweep of the history of Sino-Japanese relations
  • Author: Astley, Ian
  • Subjects: Bibliographic literature ; Displays ; Historiography ; History ; Modernization ; Publishing ; Shame ; Translations
  • Is Part Of: Asia Maior, 2020, Vol.XXXI
  • Description: [...]anyone familiar with Japan’s relations with China through history will balk at the assertion that after the Meiji Restoration «Japan stopped being a vassal state of China» (p. 161), when one of the distinctive aspects of Japan’s historical connexions with China is that it was never a vassal state in the formal sense. The development of ritsuryō (lu ling 律令) government in Japan, as well as its Chinese antecedents, a crucial part of the material for her chapter on Sui and Tang, has been extensively studied by Japanese scholars, the doyen of whom, Inoue Mitsusada, started publishing just after the Pacific War.1 One might also refer to the crucial changes in the Nara period, as traced by Herman Ooms,2 or Kūkai’s career, her account of which she bases on an insufficiently identified work in Chinese by Liang Rongruo from 1985 (pp. 82ff). The broad knowledge that the author displays throughout the book is commendable but there are far too many statements that are not thought through, not supported by reference to any sources, or mere conjecture, as in the promising section on the young Chinese who went to Japan in the Qing/Meiji period, and were an important part of the modernization of East Asia (pp. 161ff). [...]this at a hard-to-justify paperback price (and an eye-watering ker-ching for the hardback) that will certainly deter any non-specialist who might be interested in studying the history of relations between China and Japan. Since this historical background is an important part of the basis for current relations between the countries of East Asia, it is a great shame that an opportunity has been lost. 1.
  • Publisher: Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice
  • Language: English;Italian
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2385-2526
    EISSN: 2612-6680
  • Source: ProQuest Central
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