H.D. Harootunian, Toward Restoration: The Growth of Political Consciousness in Tokugawa Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970)Well, this book certainly lives up to its title - kind of reminded me of one of Leo Ou-fan Lee's earlier works, the ones that are now 'collectors editions' that cost obscene amounts of money ( Read more... )

Miyazaki Tōten, My Thirty-Three Years' Dream: The Autobiography of Miyazaki Tōten, trans. Etō Shinkichi and Marius B. Jansen (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982).

A fascinating autobiography and historical record; Tōten (born Miyazaki Torazō) felt with a burning passion that China was to play an imperative in East Asian & world affairs, ( Read more... )