Hakata

In Hakata: The Cultural Worlds of Northern Kyushu, experts in various fields present an interdisciplinary collection offering diverse insights on a region that has long served a key hub in the transcultural networks linking Japan with the outside world.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andrew Cobbing is Associate Professor of History at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on Japan's cultural encounters with the West in the mid-nineteenth century, particularly through overseas travels recorded in samurai diaries. He has published several articles and books, including The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain: Japan's Early Encounters with the Far West (2000) and together with Itami Masatarō, Jeanie Eadie's Samurai: The Life and Times of a Meiji Entrepreneur and Agricultural Pioneer (2006). He has also translated Volume 3 of Kume Kunitake's official account of the Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873. His most recent book is Kyushu: Gateway to Japan: A Concise History (2009).

Produktdetails

• Mitarbeit: Andrew Cobbing (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 25.04.2013
• EAN: 9789004243491
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24349-1
• Seiten: 264
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 239 mm x 20 mm
• Gewicht: 540 g
• Serie: Regional Spaces, Cultures and
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein