This engaging book challenges the traditional notion that Japan was an isolated nation cut off from the outside world in the early modern era. This familiar sto

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Pioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies. While current scho

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The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively