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 100 - Dr. Takahiro Yamamoto (Heidelberg)
Episode 99 - PREVIEW: On the Record with Dr. Noell Wilson
Episode 98 - Dr. Lionel Babicz (Sydney)
Episode 97 - Dr. Hiromi Sasamoto-Collins (Edinburgh)
Episode 96 - Dr. Jolyon Thomas (Penn)
Episode 95 - Dr. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso)
Episode 94 - Dr. David Wittner (Utica)
Episode 93 - Dr. Rebecca Copeland (Washington Univ.)
Episode 92 - Dr. Jun Isomae (Nichibunken)
Episode 91 - Dr. Susan Burns (Chicago)
Episode 90 - Dr. Gavin Campbell (Dōshisha)
Episode 89 - Janice Nimura
Episode 88 - Dr. Colin Jaundrill (Providence)
Episode 87 - Dr. Deborah Shamoon (NUS)
Episode 85 - Dr. Shi Lin Loh (NUS)
Episode 84 - Dr. David Ambaras (NC State)
Episode 83 - Dr. Donna Brunero (NUS)
Episode 82 - Dr. Jordan Sand (Georgetown)
Episode 81 - Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia)
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