In this episode, Dr. Ravina reconsiders received narratives of the Meiji Restoration, challenging ideas of the Restoration as a sharp break and reviving the importance of antiquity to early Meiji leaders. We compare the Meiji Restoration to earlier examples of foreign threat and domestic reform in premodern Japan, question concepts of "modernization" and "Westernization" commonly applied to the Meiji Period, and place the Restoration among the global revolutions of the 19th century. (Transcript here).
Episode 120 - Dr. Tristan Grunow (Yale)
Episode 119 - Dr. Xiaowei Zheng (UCSB), Dr. Robert Tierney (Illinois)
Episode 118 - Dr. Ryosuke Maeda (Hokkaidō)
Episode 117 - Dr. Paul Kreitman (Columbia)
Episode 116 - Dr. Rachael Hutchinson (Delaware)
Episode 115 - Dr. Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv)
Episode 114 - Dr. Aiko Takeuchi-Demirci (Stanford)
Episode 113 - PREVIEW: The Hokkaidō 150 Podcast - Dr. ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
Episode 112 - Dr. Hitomi Yoshio (Waseda)
Episode 111 - Dr. Oleg Benesch (York)
Episode 110 - Dr. Tatiana Linkhoeva (NYU)
Episode 109 - Dr. Paul Barclay (Lafayette)
Episode 108 - Dr. Susanna Fessler (Albany)
Episode 107 - Dr. Ian Miller (Harvard)
Episode 106 - Dr. Patricia Sippel (Tōyō Eiwa)
Episode 105 - Dr. Miriam Wattles (UCSB)
Episode 104 - Dr. M. William Steele (ICU)
Episode 103 - Dr. Catherine Phipps (Memphis)
Episode 102 - Dr. Dan Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Episode 101 - Dr. Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi)
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