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亚洲世界中的德川幕府

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罗纳德·托比在这本书中阐明了日本的“锁国”并非像传统研究所认为的那样得到了彻底的实施,17世纪30年代的“锁国令”只影响到部分欧洲人(天主教徒)。德川幕府所谓的“锁国”政策是更大的外交政策的一部分,日本与亚洲的关系以及日本与世界的贸易并没有中断。事实上,研究表明,贸易实际上在1640年后有所增长。

德川幕府所推行的对外政策,是基于理性的取舍,放弃了无限制以外国贸易换取主权、安全和合法性的做法。这帮助幕府确立了统治的合法性,在动荡不安的环境中保障了日本的国家安全,还进一步确立了另一种独立于历史学家更熟悉的世界秩序,对19世纪日本回应西方所采取的方式产生了深远影响。

348 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1984

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1,990 reviews95 followers
February 23, 2024
這是海外日本研究叢書中的一本
應該還有不少有趣的題目
這本看看頁數還好買了紙書
已經沒有亞馬遜可買的情況下
以後這叢書大概也不會看更多了吧

本書是論證德川並不鎖國的小書
書中講到江戶政權穩定下來後
有意識的打造自己的外交體系
並非關起門來當睜眼瞎子

作者定義的日本型華夷秩序分四個等第
依次是朝鮮琉球荷蘭中國
前兩者是國交,後兩者只是通商
據此江戶政權成功對內塑造了統治正當性
對外也保持一定的貿易和情蒐管道

如此到幕末被歐美壓境時
由於日本早早就拒絕中華朝貢秩序
想出一套應對外國的方法
姑且不論碰上帝國主義時這方法合不合用
至少比週邊舊中國藩屬囿於意識型態
事事尋求天朝指引,結果天朝自己也鴉鴉烏
反觀日本自己就是天朝
才能夠在思想上順利達成開國的共識

雖然我覺得日本型華夷秩序下的不鎖國
還是自欺欺人居多
但是因此而有意識基礎去開國
這立論倒是很令人耳目一新
(只是看看原著出版日期,搞不好是我鴿子封包...)
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April 26, 2025
This is a stunner and rightly deserves its reputation as a critical work in Edo Period foreign policy studies. Putting to bed the myth of total isolation, the chapters here show the real purpose of the Shogunate was to combat ideologies that delegimitzed the state's sovereignty as a distinct entity from both Chinese regional domination and the European maritime empires. Significant percentage of the text is devoted to the truly bilateral relationship between Korea and Japan, which was the one success point of this policy that is well documented.

The focus is on Asia more than the Europeans, as this good as Asian diplomacy in this time is overlooked despite being by far the most important from the government's perspective.
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583 reviews65 followers
July 24, 2010
a somewhat old-fashioned narrative account, but one i found really absorbing and informative. diplomatic history go go go! like chelsea, i find it a little depressing that, despite all this, the sakoku myth still persists.
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May 9, 2010
All this, and yet people still speak of Japan as a "closed country" in its early modern period.
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