The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan
The Revolutionary Origins of Modern Japan
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现代日本的革命起源
DOI：
10.2307/1869459
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发表时间：
1983
影响因子：
6.8
通讯作者：
T. Huber
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作者：
T. Huber
这本书挑战了明治维新作为“自上而下的革命”的流行观点，认为其主要原因既不是西方日益增长的威胁，也不是对天皇和国家的传统忠诚，而是在于阶级冲突和长期的制度变迁。作者将复辟视为一场反对封建特权的革命，由小行政人员、牧师、学者和村官组成的服务知识分子自下而上进行。这本书重点关注长州领域内政治上最有效的积极分子团体，以及他们在 1850 年代和 1860 年代最重要的领导人：吉田松阴、草坂源瑞和高杉慎作。它考察了他们的社会和教育背景，探讨了他们的行动动机，并跟踪他们经历了他们的智力和政治斗争。最后一章解释了明治时期（1868-1912）革命起源方面迄今为止令人费解的各个方面，并在结论中表明，维新运动远非日本独有，它具有许多我们与英国、法国和俄罗斯伟大革命联系在一起的特征。
Challenging the popular view of the Meiji Restoration as a "revolution from above," this book argues that its main cause was neither the growing threat of the West nor traditional loyalty to Emperor and nation, but rather lay in class conflict and long-term institutional change. The author sees the Restoration as a revolution against feudal privilege carried out from below by a service intelligentsia of minor administrators, priests, scholars, and village officials. The book focuses on the politically most effective body of activists, those in the domain of Choshu, and on their most important leaders of the 1850s and 1860s: Yoshida Shoin, Kusaka Genzui, and Takasugi Shinsaku. It examines their social and educational background, explores their motives for acting, and follows them through their intellectual and political struggles. The final chapter explains various heretofore puzzling aspects of the Meiji period (1868-1912) in terms of its revolutionary origins, and concludes by showing that the Restoration, far from being uniquely Japanese, had many of the characteristics we associate with the great revolutions of England, France, and Russia.