Nakae Chōmin, A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government, trans. Nobuko Tsukui (Boston: Weatherhill, 1984).Delightful, slim little volume - a nice translation of a famous 1887 original. Nakae's career in the Meiji period 'places the dilemmas of the Meiji intellectual into sharp focus' (8) - quite learned in 'foreign learning,' especially in ( Read more... )