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Uncharted Waters: Intellectual Life in the EDO Period: Essays in Honour of W.J. Boot
Contributor(s): Beerens, Anna, Teeuwen, Mark

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 ISBN: 9004216731     ISBN-13: 9789004216730
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE: $160.55  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Social History
- History | Asia - Japan
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 952.025
LCCN: 2012004674
Series: Brill's Japanese Studies Library
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" L (1.25 lbs) 272 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
Features: Index
 
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In the Edo period, Japan had its first experience of what one might call "intellectual life" in a pregnant sense of the word: a scene that combined serious intellectual pursuits, from poetry writing to the interpretation of the Confucian classics, with intense social interaction. Edo-period Japan was crisscrossed by networks of poets, scholars, artists and collectors who exchanged information, discussed each other's work, cooperated in collaborative projects, and gossiped about each other. Intellectual life in Edo Japan was a seething cauldron of social interaction and competition, sometimes harmoniously productive, sometimes destructively vicious, but never stagnant. This volume, compiled in honour of Prof. W.J. Boot, offers eleven essays that explore the intellectual scene of Edo-period Japan from a variety of perspectives.
 
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