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
With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that
Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800. Gilbert
While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868) tends to see China as either a model or "the Other," Wai-ming Ng's pioneering and ambitious study offe
"With the goal of understanding China's future in a changing international landscape, this book offers a new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploratio