Terrence Jackson is associate professor of history at Adrian College.
Nagasaki during the Tokugawa (1603–1868) was truly Japan's window on the world with its Chinese residences and Deshima island, where Western foreigners, including representatives of the Dutch East India Company, were confined. In 1785 Ōtsuki Gentaku (1757–1827) journeyed from the capital to Nagasaki to meet Dutch physicians and the Japanese who acted as their interpreters. Gentaku was himself a physician, but he was also a Dutch studies (rangaku) scholar who passionately believed that European science and medicine were critical to Japan's progress. Network of Knowledge examines the development of Dutch studies during the crucial years 1770–1830 as Gentaku, with the help of likeminded colleagues, worked to facilitate its growth, creating a school, participating in and hosting scholarly and social gatherings, and circulating books. In time the modest, informal gatherings of Dutch studies devotees (rangakusha), mostly in Edo and Nagasaki, would grow into a pan-national society.
Applying ideas from social network theory and Bourdieu's conceptions of habitus, field, and capital, this volume shows how Dutch studies scholars used networks to grow their numbers and overcome government indifference to create a dynamic community. The social significance of rangakusha, as much as the knowledge they pursued in medicine, astronomy, cartography, and military science, was integral to the creation of a Tokugawa information revolution—one that saw an increase in information gathering among all classes and innovative methods for collecting and storing that information. Although their salons were not as politically charged as those of their European counterparts, rangakusha were subversive in their decision to include scholars from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. They created a cultural society of civility and play in which members worked toward a common cultural goal. This insightful study reveals the strength of the community's ties as it follows rangakusha into the Meiji era (1868–1912), when a new generation championed values and ambitions similar to those of Gentaku and his peers.
發表於2024-12-23
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無語瞭。。。怎麼可以這麼無聊
評分對於art historian來講,封麵圖畫有意思
評分採用“社會網絡”和布迪厄理論討論蘭學的發展,整體來說還是比較成功的。。對我自己的論文有一些啟示,但是我不會像他那樣,通篇都套用理論來分析。蘭學研究已經很深入瞭,而我研究的這個領域,連很多基本史實都還沒有釐清。目前的我還是傾嚮於用檔案和原始史料,先把這段歷史重構齣來。
評分採用“社會網絡”和布迪厄理論討論蘭學的發展,整體來說還是比較成功的。。對我自己的論文有一些啟示,但是我不會像他那樣,通篇都套用理論來分析。蘭學研究已經很深入瞭,而我研究的這個領域,連很多基本史實都還沒有釐清。目前的我還是傾嚮於用檔案和原始史料,先把這段歷史重構齣來。
評分對於art historian來講,封麵圖畫有意思
Network of Knowledge 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載