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Britain and Japan: Biographical Portraits, Vol. VII
出版
Global Oriental
, 2010-09-23
主題
Biography & Autobiography / General
ISBN
9004218033
9789004218031
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=1fV5DwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This latest volume of leading figures in the history of Anglo-Japanese relations offers a classic menu of personalities, themes and events (in all 25 contributions). Contents include the writings of the Cambridge scholar Carmen Blacker and leading historian William Beasley; British military observer and
Times
reporter of the Russo-Japanese War General Sir Ian Hamilton; philosophers Arnold Toynbee, Bertrand Russell and George Bernard Shaw; the Chosu students Inoue Kaoru and Yamao Yozo who were later key figures in the Meiji period modernization of Japan; and Walter Dening, scholar and missionary. Subjects treated include horse breeding and horse-racing, the Japanese influence on British architects, the beginnings of golf in Japan and Japanese gardeners in Britain.