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Birth of Modern Japan 1603-1912 - AHSV10731
Title: PVP Birth of Modern Japan 1603-1912
Guaranteed by: Institute of General History (21-USD)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2019
Semester: summer
Points: 0
E-Credits: 1
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, colloquium [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Is provided by: AHSV10729
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: PhDr. Roman Kodet, Ph.D.
Incompatibility : AHESV173, AHSV10729, AHSV10730
Is incompatible with: AHESV173, AHSV10730, AHSV10729
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Annotation -
Last update: PhDr. Roman Kodet, Ph.D. (12.03.2019)
Between 1603 and 1912, Japan saw two major transformations of its society. In the Edo Period, under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a productive revolution developed by expanding cultivated farmland and increasing and rationalizing craft production. As a result, the country was self-sufficient at a time when it voluntarily resorted to international isolation and also saw significant economic and demographic growth. At the same time, urban society developed rapidly, making Japan one of the most urbanized countries in the world. Also, the development of Buddhist schools and higher education in individual domains has contributed significantly to the development of a Japanese society whose literacy rate has far exceeded most contemporary countries. These factors, despite military backwardness, have allowed to react to the reopening of the country forced upon Japan by the Great Powers and to stand up to their cahllenge. The country's ability to modernize and embrace Western institutions and ideas in the second half of the 19th century has been fundamentally facilitated by previous developments that created preconditions that facilitated Japan's westernization in many ways. The ensuing Meiji reforms brought Japan closer to the Western world and at the beginning of the 20th century allowed rise among Great Powers. At the same time, they began a process of transformation of Japanese society, which developed from the era of Feudalism to Modern society as the concept is understood today.
Aim of the course -
Last update: PhDr. Roman Kodet, Ph.D. (12.03.2019)
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the history of Japan in the years 1603-1912. The main focus will be on the development of Japanese society in the Edo Period and its changes during the subsequent reforms of the Meiji era. Attention will also be paid to Japanese political history and the transformation of the country's international position in the context of world history.
Literature
Last update: PhDr. Roman Kodet, Ph.D. (12.03.2019)

Akamatsu, Paul, Meiji 1868. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Japan, Lodnon, New York 2011.

Beasley, William G., The Meiji Restoration, Stanford 1972.

Hane, Mikiso, Perez, Louis G., Premodern Japan, Philadelphia 2015.

Jansen, Marius B. (ed.). The Cambridge Histrory of Japan, vol. 5 The Nineteenth Century, Cambridge, 1989.

Jansen, Marius B. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, London, 2002.

Keene, Donald, Emperor of Japan. Meiji and His World, 1852-1812, New York 2002.

McClain, James L., Japan. A Modern History, New York, London 2002.

Totman, Conrad, Early Modern Japan, Los Angeles, London 1995.

 
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