A Tale of Japanese Technological Diffusion in the Meiji Period
A Tale of Japanese Technological Diffusion in the Meiji Period
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明治时期日本技术传播的故事
DOI：
10.1017/s0022050700079687
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发表时间：
1974
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Gary R. Saxonhouse
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作者：
Gary R. Saxonhouse
一般来说，在大约15年前以及之前的几十年里，认为日本人是外国技术的盲目模仿者并不罕见。作为经济史研究工作者，我们认识到盲目模仿外国技术绝非易事。国外的技术实践很难统一。在众多相互竞争的技术中做出选择绝非易事。一个世纪前，年轻的日本学生被要求到海外去发现什么是最好的，并使之日本化。半封建寡头政治及其知识分子支持者的这种禁令虽然在精神上是进步的，但却是幼稚的。一种工艺很少能主导国际工业。对世界领导人有用的东西，可能不适用于19世纪晚期日本的人力和非人力资源禀赋。最初，日本在全球范围内的搜索使它采用了法国式的军队，美国式的银行体系和英国式的棉纺织工业。随着时间的推移，这些模式中的每一个要么被抛弃，要么被其他国家模式所取代，要么被修改以满足同化的需要。
Fifteen or so years ago and for many decades before that, popularly speaking, it was not uncommon to think of the Japanese as slavish imitators of foreign technology. As research workers in economic history, we recognize that slavish imitation of foreign technology is no easy matter. Foreign technical practice is hardly uniform. Choice among a number of competing technologies is hardly child's play. Young Japanese students of a century ago were enjoined to go overseas, discover what was best and make it Japanese. Such injunctions by a semi-feudal oligarchy and its intellectual supporters while progressive in spirit were naive. One process rarely dominates international industry. What was useful for the world's leader might not be appropriate for the human and nonhuman resource endowment of late nineteenth-century Japan. Initially, Japan's worldwide search led it to adopt a French-style army, an American-style banking system, and a British-style cotton textile industry. In time each of these models were either discarded in favor of other national models or otherwise modified to meet the imperatives of assimilation.
影响因子：
6.1
作者：
SWAMY, PAVB
通讯作者：
SWAMY, PAVB