Nagasaki during the Tokugawa (1603–1868) was truly Japan's window on the world with its Chinese residences and Deshima island, where Western foreigners, including representatives of the Dutch East India Company, were confined. In 1785 Ōtsuki Gentaku (1757–1827) journeyed from the capital to Nagasaki to meet Dutch physicians and the Japanese who acted as their interpreters. Gentaku was himself a physician, but he was also a Dutch studies (rangaku) scholar who passionately believed that European science and medicine were critical to Japan's progress. Network of Knowledge examines the development of Dutch studies during the crucial years 1770–1830 as Gentaku, with the help of likeminded colleagues, worked to facilitate its growth, creating a school, participating in and hosting scholarly and social gatherings, and circulating books. In time the modest, informal gatherings of Dutch studies devotees (rangakusha), mostly in Edo and Nagasaki, would grow into a pan-national society.
Applying ideas from social network theory and Bourdieu's conceptions of habitus, field, and capital, this volume shows how Dutch studies scholars used networks to grow their numbers and overcome government indifference to create a dynamic community. The social significance of rangakusha, as much as the knowledge they pursued in medicine, astronomy, cartography, and military science, was integral to the creation of a Tokugawa information revolution—one that saw an increase in information gathering among all classes and innovative methods for collecting and storing that information. Although their salons were not as politically charged as those of their European counterparts, rangakusha were subversive in their decision to include scholars from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds. They created a cultural society of civility and play in which members worked toward a common cultural goal. This insightful study reveals the strength of the community's ties as it follows rangakusha into the Meiji era (1868–1912), when a new generation championed values and ambitions similar to those of Gentaku and his peers.
Terrence Jackson is associate professor of history at Adrian College.
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评分我很少用“颠覆性”这个词来形容一本书,但对于这本书,我找不到更合适的词汇了。它不是简单地整合了现有信息,而是提出了一种看待信息聚合与权力结构之间关系的全新范式。作者的语言风格极其犀利,充满了洞察力,尤其是在批判那些僵化的知识垄断结构时,文字的力量感十足,却又没有落入情绪化的泥潭,所有的批判都有坚实的论据支撑。我感觉作者像一位思想的建筑师,不仅搭建了知识的骨架,还精心地设计了光线和通风系统,确保这个知识殿堂是既坚固又宜居的。这本书强迫你去挑战自己的认知边界,去质疑那些你从未质疑过的“真理”。对于任何一个对人类文明发展轨迹和未来走向有深刻好奇心的人来说,这本书不读,将是巨大的遗憾。
评分说实话,这本书对我个人的职业发展产生了立竿见影的影响。它不是一本教你“如何做”的工具手册,而是一本教你“如何思考”的哲学指南。通过阅读,我开始重新审视我工作中处理数据和决策制定的底层逻辑,那些过去被视为理所当然的假设,在书中的框架下变得站不住脚。作者在阐述复杂系统理论时,采用了非常巧妙的类比手法,将抽象的数学模型转化成了我们生活中触手可及的场景,使得即便是非专业背景的读者也能迅速抓住核心精髓。我特别喜欢它对“失败案例”的分析,它没有回避那些知识体系构建过程中的曲折和误入歧途,反而将这些挫折视为必要的迭代步骤,这种坦诚的态度,极大地增强了读者的亲近感。如果你正在寻求一种能够提升你解决复杂问题的能力,这本书无疑是打开新思路的一把万能钥匙。
评分对于art historian来讲,封面图画有意思
评分对于art historian来讲,封面图画有意思
评分无语了。。。怎么可以这么无聊
评分对于art historian来讲,封面图画有意思
评分对于art historian来讲,封面图画有意思
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