vogelのChina and Japan: Facing Historyを読み始める(その4)
第3章の前半
The Chinese sent a mission abroad to learn about foreign developments, but the mission was not as large or as systematic as Japan’s Iwakura Mission of 1871–1873, and after its return the members of the mission did not play the key role that their Japanese counterparts had played in designing and implementing new programs.
1800年代後半には、外国から学ぶ切迫感について清と明治日本に格段の違いがあった。Vogel (2019)
変化を嫌い,遠ざけることがその後の国の決定的な違いになることは、現代でもそうだ。
わからない単語
armada | 艦隊 |
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Tongzhi | 同治帝 |
concubine | めかけ |
dowager | 貴族の寡婦 |
Guangxu | 光緒帝 |
Self-Strengthening Movement | 洋務運動 |
Li Hongzhan | 李鴻章 |
czar | 皇帝 |
References
Vogel, Ezra F. 2019. China and Japan: Facing History. Harvard University Press.