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Marius B. Jansen


Born
in Vleuten, Netherlands
April 11, 1922

Died
December 10, 2000

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Marius Berthus Jansen was Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University. Jansen graduated from Princeton in 1943, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation. After serving in the United States Army, during which time he studied Japanese and working in the Occupation of Japan, Jansen returned to the United States and completed his PhD in history at Harvard in 1950, studying Japan with Edwin O. Reischauer and China with John K. Fairbank. Jansen began his teaching career at the University of Washington in 1950 and moved to Princeton in 1959 as professor in the departments of history and Oriental studies, where he taught until his retirement in 1992.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 1,284 ratings · 134 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors
The Making of Modern Japan
4.07 avg rating — 645 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meij...
4.10 avg rating — 101 ratings — published 1971 — 16 editions
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The Cambridge History of Ja...
4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions
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The Emergence of Meiji Japa...
4.04 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions
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Warrior Rule in Japan (Camb...
3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions
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Japan and Its World
3.94 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions
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Japan in Transition: From T...
4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions
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China in the Tokugawa World
3.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
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The Japanese and Sun Yat-Sen
4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions
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Japan and China: From War t...
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1975 — 2 editions
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