{"product_id":"selected-essays-by-fukuzawa-yukichi-on-government-paperback","title":"Selected Essays by Fukuzawa Yukichi: On Government - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlbert M. Craig\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eTeruko Craig\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age nineteen to study Dutch. In 1858, he was sent to Edo to teach Dutch to domain students. In his spare time he taught himself English using a Dutch-English dictionary. Two years later, he was appointed a translator of diplomatic documents at the shogunal office of foreign affairs. In 1862, he founded a school that is now Keio University. Eager to introduce Western history and ideas to the Japanese, he wrote a series of books, including the bestselling \u003ci\u003eConditions in the West\u003c\/i\u003e (1866).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the late 1870s, he turned his attention to the prospects for parliamentary government in Japan. The central government was firmly in place and elective prefectural assemblies were about to be established. He wrote essays on the workings of such a system, drawing on his earlier travels abroad and his reading of de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill, Walter Bagehot, and others. A realist and optimist, Fukuzawa assured his readers of the eventual success of parliamentary government in Japan. This book provides the first-English language translation of five essays that bear directly on the development of his thought and its legacy in Japanese culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert M. Craig \u003c\/b\u003eis Harvard-Yenching Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eChoshu in the Meiji Restoration\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Heritage of Japanese Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e (2003), \u003ci\u003e Civilization and Enlightenment: The Early Thought of Fukuzawa Yukichi\u003c\/i\u003e (2009), and, with others, of \u003ci\u003eEast Asia, Tradition and Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e (1973). He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eJapan, A Comparative View\u003c\/i\u003e (1973) and co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePersonality in Japanese History\u003c\/i\u003e (1970). He was the director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. He has also been a visiting professor at Kyoto, Tokyo and Keio universities. He has received Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Japan Foundation Fellowships. In 1988 he was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTeruko Craig\u003c\/b\u003e is Senior Lecturer Emerita at Tufts University, USA. She has translated several books from Japanese into English, including \u003ci\u003eMusui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai\u003c\/i\u003e (1988), \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eRemembering Aizu: The Testament of Shiba Goro \u003c\/i\u003e(1999) and \u003ci\u003eIn the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun: The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eHiratsuka Raicho \u003c\/i\u003e(2010).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101033959559,"sku":"9781350192454","price":77.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d93476dd7f883f3d87e065544c221f92.webp?v=1732390428","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/selected-essays-by-fukuzawa-yukichi-on-government-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}