Book Details
Orange Code:93049
Paperback:400 pages
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1. Wa-Han or Archipelago-Mainland Relations before 57 c.e.2. The Material Object3. Kamei Nanmei: “Politics Is Learning and Learning Is Politics”4. Commentaries on the Gold Seal in the 1780s: Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend5. Ascendancy of the “Ito no kuni” Reading from the Late Eighteenth Century6. Revival of Interest in the Gold Seal in the Meiji Era and Miyake Yonekichi’s Breakthrough7. Modern Science and the Gold Seal8. Persistent Problem Areas in the Twentieth Century9. Recent Challenges to the Gold Seal’s Authenticity: Conspiracy Theories and Better Science
Description:
In "Japanese Historiography and the Gold Seal of 57 C.E.," Joshua Fogel examines the waves of historiographical analysis that this first item to pass officially from China to Japan has undergone in the two-plus centuries since its discovery.
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