Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History.
Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History.
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日本的东方：将过去变成历史。
DOI：
10.2307/2168912
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发表时间：
1994
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通讯作者：
Stefan Tanaka
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作者：
G. M. Wilson;Stefan Tanaka
本研究探讨了19世纪末20世纪初日本历史学家如何为他们的新民族国家创造了相当于“东方”的概念。明治维新后，日本面临着既要摆脱西方的“东方”定性，又要保持自身身份的现代化的必要性。“丰”（东方研究）的概念使它有可能适应上一个世纪的变化--西方带着技术和文化包袱的到来和中国的衰落--成为一个全面的思想体系。与其他学者将日本与西方的遭遇描述为现代与传统之间的斗争不同，田中认为日本人实际上试图利用各种过去-中国，印度和原始历史的日本人-来构建一个既现代又亚洲的身份。
This study examines how Japanese historians during the late 19th and early 20th centuries created the equivalent of an "Orient" for their new nation state. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan faced the necessity of becoming modern while both shedding the Western characterization of "Oriental" and maintaining its own identity. The concept of "toyoshi" (Oriental studies) made it possible to fit the changes of the previous century - the arrival of the West with its technical and cultural baggage and the decline of China - into a comprehensive ideological system. Unlike other scholars, who depict the encounter between Japan and the West as a struggle between modernity and tradition, Tanaka argues that the Japanese were, in fact, attempting to use a variety of pasts - Chinese, Indian, and proto-historic Japanese - to construct an identity that was both modern and Asian.