When Commodore Perry arrived in Japan to open the country to Western trade in 1853, he found a medieval amalgam of sword-bearing samurai, castle towns, Confucian academies, peasant villages, rice paddies, upstart merchants, bath houses, and Kabuki. Fifteen years later, Japan was on its way to becoming the only non-Western nation in the nineteenth century with a modern centraliz...(展开全部)

马里乌斯·詹森（Marius Jansen, 1922-2000），哈佛大学博士，普林斯顿大学荣誉教授，日本史、中日关系史专家。1969年创立普林斯顿大学东亚研究系，并担任首任主任。1999年成为首位获得日本文化功劳者称号的外国人。《剑桥日本史》主编，代表作有《日本人与 孙中山》（1954）、《坂本龙马与明治维新》（1961）、《日本人的世界观》（1975）、《日本和中国：从战争到和平，1894—1972》（1975）、《德川时代与中国文化》（1992）、《现代日本的形成》（2000）等。 曾小楚，自由译者，上海外国语大学毕业。已经出版的译作包括《实验方法》、《娜塔莎之舞》、《明治天皇》等。

马里乌斯·詹森（Marius Jansen, 1922-2000），哈佛大学博士，普林斯顿大学荣誉教授，日本史、中日关系史专家。1969年创立普林斯顿大学东亚研究系，并担任首任主任。1999年成为首位获得日本文化功劳者称号的外国人。《剑桥日本史》主编，代表作有《日本人与 孙中山》（1954）、《坂本龙马与明治维新》（1961）、《日本人的世界观》（1975）、《日本和中国：从战争到和平，1894—1972》（1975）、《德川时代与中国文化》（1992）、《现代日本的形成》（2000）等。 曾小楚，自由译者，上海外国语大学毕业。已经出版的译作包括《实验方法》、《娜塔莎之舞》、《明治天皇》等。

Jansen tells the story of the Restoration in the career and thought of Sakamoto Ryoma and, to a lesser extent, Nakaoka Shintaro, each an example of the new type of political leader: idealistic, individualistic, and patriotic.

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shōgun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied "best practice" from around the world, building a powerful and modern Japanese nation with the help of European and American...(展开全部)

Cunningham explores the rapid rise of restorative development, details how the information age is catalyzing the transition from development to restoration, and demonstrates how restoration is ''greening'' residential, commercial, and public construction.

A classic Japanese mystery - a pair of sleuths investigate a series of bloody murders in 19th century Tokyo Japan, 1869. A time of reform and rebellion. Detectives Kazuki and Kawaji are assigned to investigate a series of seemingly impossible murders. Together with the help of a mysterious shrine maiden, can they solve each gruesome death and piece together the dark connection ...(展开全部)

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges 'the limits of classical analytic theory' and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a 'psychology of the self' as a theory in its own right - one that can stand beside the teachings of Freud and Jung. Using clinical data, Kohut explores issues such as the role of narc...(展开全部)

Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and communicating new national values was less consistent than is usually supposed.