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A Rehandling of Japanese History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Meribeth E. Cameron
Affiliation:
Milwaukee-Downer College
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Extract

Students of the cultures of Eastern Asia are apt to accuse specialists in European and American history of culpable ignorance in regard to that vast portion of the human race which inhabits the Asiatic continent. Their accusations are reasonably well founded. An expert in the history of the Renaissance would be properly scandalized if one of the local experts in Far Eastern history (if there are any) should profess ignorance of Savanarola, but he may feel no decent embarrassment at his own inability to place the Han dynasty within a thousand years of its proper dates.

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Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942

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1 Toynbee, Arnold J., A study of history. London: Oxford University Press, 19341939. 6 vols.Google Scholar

2 Cameron, Meribeth E., “A bisection of Chinese history,” Pacific historical review, 8 (Dec., 1939), 401–12.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 Toynbee, , op. cit., vol. 1, p. 133.Google Scholar

4 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 159.

5 Ibid., vol. 5, p. 528.

6 Ibid., vol. 4, p. 93–94.

7 Ibid., vol. 3, p. 145.

8 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 159.

9 Ibid., vol. 3, p. 145.

10 Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 94–95, n. The instance of a Buddhist monastery resorting to arms in 961 is difficult to verify. However, the following item appears under the year 959: “Imperial Police were dispatched to put an end to the fight between the Kanjin-in and the Kiyomizu-dera [temple].” See Reischauer, R. K., Early Japanese history (Princeton, 1937)Google Scholar, Part A, p. 298, and Heki, Shōichi, Kokushi dainempyō (Tōkyō, 1935), vol. 1, p. 249. [Editor's note].Google Scholar

11 Toynbee, , op. cit., vol. 5, pp. 96103.Google Scholar

12 Ibid., p. 100.

13 Ibid., vol. 4, pp. 94–95, n.

14 Ibid., pp. 93–94.

15 Ibid., vol. 6, p. 305.

16 Ibid., vol. 5, p. 95–96.

17 Ibid., vol. 6, p. 89–93.

18 Ibid., vol. 5, p. 365.

19 Ibid., vol. 4, p. 90.

20 Ibid., vol. 4, p. 88.

21 Ibid., vol. 5, p. 89.

22 For this discussion see especially ibid., vol. 4, pp. 88 ff.; vol. 6, pp. 308 ff.

23 Ibid., vol. 2, p. 158.