Josef Kreiner Boeken

Berque, A.: The Japanese Thought of Milieu (fudo): From Peculiarism to the Quest of the Paradigm / Distelrath, G.: The Paradigm of Eternal Recurrence: How the Structure of Academic Debate on the Japanese Economy itself Founded the „Japan Incorporated“ Stereotype / Hamaguchi, E.: The Contextual Model in Japanese Studies / Johnson, F. A.: Interdependent Affiliation among Japanese: The Many Facets of amae / Kuwayama, T.: The Familial (ie) Model of Japanese Society / Lenz, I.: On the Potential of Gender Studies for the Understanding of Japanese Society / Linhart, S.: Community Studies on Japan / Mouer, R./Tsuboi, T./Wearne, B.: The Multi-Dimensional Stratification Model: A Focus on Variation and the Comparative Perspective / Pörtner, P.: How to Conflict Intelligently: Six Notes Concerning the Processing of Dissent in Japan / Sugimoto, Y.: The Conflict Model of Japanese Society

Aus dem Inhalt: Josef KREINER: Preface Josef KREINER: Japan's „Long 16th Century“ - Japan at the Transition from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period and the Coming of the Europeans Reinhard WENDT: The Spanish-Dutch War, Japanese Trade, and World Politics Ekkehard WESTERMANN: Gold, Silver, and Copper in the European Economies and Their External Trade Relations from the End of the 15th to the End of the 16th Century Roelof VAN GELDER: Bound for Asia: Some Aspects of the Personnel of the Dutch East India Company Dietrich EBELING: The Dutch Timber Trade in the Rhineland During the 17th and 18th Centuries Leendert VAN PROOIJE: Timber from the Rhine Area: Its Use on Shipbuilding in the Dutch Republic in the 17th and 18th Centuries. An Inquiry into the Quantity of Timber Used for Shipbuilding Cynthia VIALLÉ: Those Headstrong People! Dutch Dealings with Japanese Lacquerers Martin KÜGLER and Ralf KLUTTIG-ALTMANN: German Clay Pipes on the World Market Anneli WALLENTOWITZ: A Note on Clay Pipes in Japan in the Edo Period

Aus dem Inhalt: Josef KREINER: Ryukyuan History in Comparative Perspective Monika WACKER: Onarigami - Holy Woman in the Kingdom of Ryukyu: A Pacific Culture with Chinese Influences Wolfgang MARSCHALL: Notes on Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean and Beyond Engelbert JORISSEN: The Portuguese Approach to Asia in the Early Sixteenth Century Arano YASUNORI: The Kingdom of Ryukyu and the East Asian World Order in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Takara KURAYOSHI: An Outline of Ryukyu's Relation to China Gerhard MÜLLER: The Kingdom of Ryukyu and China: The System of Tributary States Gregory SMITS: Ryukyuan Uses of Chinese Confucianism Patrick BEILLEVAIRE: Wavering Attention: French Governmental Policy Towards the Ryukyu Kingdom Teruya YOSHIHIKO: Ryukyu and Its Role in Western Thought: Euro-American Peace Movements in the Early Nineteenth Century Gregory SMITS: The Ryukyu Shobun in East Asia and World History Gabriele VOGT: The Ryukyus under U. S. Occupation Tanaka AKIHIKO: Okinawa and its Role in Japanese-American Security Relations Gabe MASAAKI: The Changing U. S.-Japan Alliance System: The Return of the Futenma Marine Air Station and theNew Guidelines Chalmers JOHNSON: Okinawa Between the United States and Japan Taira KOJI: Okinawa in the Twenty-First Century: A Third Golden Age or Continued Oblivion

Kreiner, J.: Notes on the History of European-Ryukyuan Contacts / Takara, K.: The Kingdom of Ryukyu and its Overseas Trade / Vos, K.: Dutch Encounters with the Kingdom of Ryukyu and Ryukyuan Collections in the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden / Pantzer, P.: Knowledge and Sources on Ryukyu in Germany and Austria / Beillevaire, P.: Scholars, Officers and Missionaries: A History of French Sources on Ryukyu / Brown, Y.-Y.: Ryukyuan Resources in Britain: An Introductory Survey / Kabanoff, A. M.: Materials on the Ryukyuan Islands in St. Petersburg / Rokkum, A.: Contact through Collectibles: Scandinavia and the Ryukyu Islands / Arakawa, H.: Ryukyu Lacquerware in Europe - Focusing on the Hakue Technique / Shukumine, K.: An Encounter with Dyed and Woven Textiles from the Kingdom of Ryukyu - with Main Focus on the Collection at the Berlin National Museum of Ethnology / Manabu, Y.: Ryukyuan Resources in Japan and the Database Project / Beillevaire, P.: General Bibliography of Ryukyu-related Books and Articles Published in France / Kreiner, J.: Ryukyuan Collections in Europe / Kreiner, J.: Ryukyuan Collections in the United States / Kreiner, J.: Ryukyuan Collections in Japan

This volume deals with interdisciplinary research on the cultural and ideological causes for - and reasons behind - economic growth in East and Southeastern Asia, especially in Japan. The contributions discuss the assumption that - similar to European industrialization and modernization where, according to Max Weber, the inner- worldly ethos of Protestantism was the decisive factor - there must habe been a comparable spiritual basis underlying the successful modernisation of Japan and some other countries in East and Southeastern Asia. Kreiner, J.: Introduction / Dore, R.: Confucianism, Economic Growth and Social Development / Tu, W.: The Confucian Dimension in the East Asian Development Model / Kim, K.: Confucianism and Modernization in East Asia: Theoretical Explorations / Dumoulin, H.: Tradition and Modernity in Japanese Buddhism Today / Schepers, G.: Shinran's Thought in Present-Day Japan / Obayashi, T.: Shinto and Buddhism in Japan / Ashkenazi, M.: Some Influences of Shinto on Japanese Business Practices / Senda, M.: Taoist Roots in Japanese Culture / Gebhardt, L.: The Peachblossom Utopia: Taoist Thought in Modern Japanese Literature / Kubo, N.: Taoist Influence on Modern Japan / Frank, R.: Traditional Legal Thought and Present-Day Law

Im Südosten Kyotos befindet sich eine der ältesten Klosteranlagen Japans: der Daigo-ji, der seit seiner Gründung 874 n. Chr. eines der wichtigsten Zentren des esoterischen Buddhismus ist. Das Kloster beherbergt einen Kunstschatz von überwältigendem Ausmaß, aus dem erstmals in Deutschland Exponate zu sehen sein werden. Mit grandiosen Fotografien zeigt dieser Ausstellungskatalog 160 herausragende Werke, darunter großformatige Skulpturen, kostbare Ritualobjekte, wertvolle Gemälde und Bildrollen und Sutren - die heiligen Schriften des Buddhismus.

Am 5. September 1905 beendete der Friede von Portsmouth den Russisch-Japanischen Krieg der Jahre 1904/05. Diese Auseinandersetzung bedeutete eine tief greifende Wende nicht nur in der Geschichte der beiden Kontrahenten, sondern für die Weltgeschichte insgesamt. Durch den Sieg der asiatischen, aber modernen Macht Japan über das zaristische, konservative Russland veränderte sich die Bündniskonstellation der europäischen Mächte entscheidend. Deutschland fand sich mehr und mehr in der Isolation, Japan wie die den Friedensschluss vermittelnden USA stiegen zu wichtigen Entscheidungsträgern in den globalen Auseinandersetzungen des eben begonnenen 20. Jahrhunderts auf. Der Krieg selbst ließ bereits alle Merkmale der schrecklichen Schlachten der Weltkriege erkennen. Krieg wie Friedensschluss waren erstmals von den modernen Medien geprägt. Führende Spezialisten gehen in den Beiträgen den Fragen nach, die der Verlauf dieser Auseinandersetzung aufwirft.