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As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy To The United States
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Masao Miyoshi'S Masterful Account Is, By Turns, Alarming And Hilarious As Two Cultures Meet At The Court Of President James Buchanan. Their Mutual Incomprehension Is, Alas, Still Relevant As Inscrutable East Fails To Make Sense Of Mysterious West, And Vice Versa.Gore VidalMiyoshi Has Given A Marvelous And Revealing Account Of A Dramatic Case Of Confrontation Of Cultures And Civilizations. It Yields Much Insight Into Our Own Society, As Seen From A Sharply Different Perspective, And Into The Culture Of The Viewers As Wellinsights Well Worth Pondering Today.Noam ChomskyAs We Saw Them Is A Pioneering Work In The Relationship Between Cultures. With Extraordinary Tact And Brilliance Miyoshi In Effect Reconstructs The Mind Of Japan At That Time, A Pregnant Moment Of Selfexamination And Emergence. For Contemporary Readers As We Saw Them Is An Invaluable Work Of Insight And Interpretation.Edward Saidin 1860 The Empire Of Japan Sent 170 Officialssamurai And Bureaucrats, Inspectors And Spies, Half A Dozen Teenagers And One Confucian Physicianto Tour The United States, The First Such Visit To America And The First Trip Anywhere Abroad In Two Hundred Years. Politics And Curiosity, On Both Sides, Mixed To Create An Amazing Journey. Using The Travelers' Own Journals Of The Trip And American Accounts Of The Group'S Progress, Historian And Critic Masao Miyoshi Relates The Fascinating Tale Of Entrenched Assumptions, Startling Impressions, And Bewildering Conclusions.Miyoshi Finds In This Unique Encounter An Entertaining Adventure Story Of Discovery And A Paradigm Of The Attitudes And Judgments That Have Ever Since Shaped American And Japanese Perceptions Of One Another. This Revealing Account Of Otherness Is Still Relevant Today As We Strive To Understand Peoples Whom We Think Of As Foreignand Therefore Strangely Other Than We.Masao Miyoshi Was Hajime Mori Professor Of Japanese, English, And Comparative Literature At The University Of California, San Diego. He Is The Author Of Off Center: Power And Culture Relations Between Japan And The United States.Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor Of History At Columbia University, Specializes In Modern Japan, From The Late Nineteenth Century To The Present.
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