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Connected Histories: Notes towards a Reconfiguration of Early Modern Eurasia1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
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The majority of Japanese even today believe that the politico-cultural universe of the Edo period was fundamentally determined by the closure of the country. They also think that the opening of Japan can be reduced to the development of exchanges with the West, following the birth of the Meiji regime. It is hard for them to imagine that Japan developed in relation with other Asian countries, since they are hardly used to appreciating Asian cultures.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 735 - 762
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