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).
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Episode 79 - Dr. Steven Ericson (Dartmouth)
Episode 78 - Dr. Taka Oshikiri (UWI-Mona)
Episode 77 - Dr. James Huffman (Wittenberg)
Episode 76 - Dr. Sayaka Chatani (NUS)
Episode 75 - Dr. Jonathan Reynolds (Columbia)
Episode 74 - Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu (UBC)
Episode 73 - Dr. Simon Partner (Duke)
Episode 72 - Dr. Ayako Yoshimura (Chicago)
Episode 71 - Dr. Michael Dylan Foster (UC Davis)
Episode 70 - Dr. Noriko Aso (UCSC)
Episode 69 - Dr. Kerim Yasar (USC)
Episode 68 - Dr. Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Williams)
Episode 67 - Dr. Brian McVeigh
Episode 66 - Dr. Merry White (Boston)
Episode 65 - Dr. Marco Tinello (Hōsei)
Episode 64 - Dr. Tze Loo (Richmond)
Episode 63 - Dr. Mark McNally (Hawaii)
Episode 62 - Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke)
Episode 61 - Dr. Kazuhiro Oharazeki (Setsunan)
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