How Long to Read Japan Encounters the Barbarian

How Long Does it Take to Read Japan Encounters the Barbarian?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 38 minutes to read Japan Encounters the Barbarian by Emeritus Professor W G Beasley

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

For over a hundred years the Japanese have looked to the West for ideas, institutions and technology that would help them achieve their goal of 'national wealth and strength'. In this book a distinguished historian of Japan discusses Japan's 'cultural borrowing' from America and Europe. W. G. Beasley focuses on the mid-nineteenth century, when Japan's rulers dispatched diplomatic missions to the West to discover what Japan needed to learn, sent students abroad to assimilate information and invited foreign experts to Japan to help put the knowledge to practical use. Beasley examines the origins of the decision to initiate direct study of the West at a time when western countries counted as 'barbarian' by Confucian standards. Drawing on many colourful letters, diaries, memoirs and reports, he describes the missions sent overseas in 1860 and 1862, in 1865-1867 and in the years after 1868, in particular the prestigious embassy led by Iwakura in 1871-1873. The book also tells the story of the several hundred students who went overseas in this period. It concludes by assessing the impact of the encounters on the subsequent development of Japan, first by examining the later careers of the travellers and the influence they exercised (they included no fewer than six prime ministers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries), and then by considering the nature of the ideas they brought home.

How long is Japan Encounters the Barbarian?

Japan Encounters the Barbarian by Emeritus Professor W G Beasley is 274 pages long, and a total of 69,596 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Japan Encounters the Barbarian Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 20 minutes to read Japan Encounters the Barbarian aloud.

What Reading Level is Japan Encounters the Barbarian?

Japan Encounters the Barbarian is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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