Susanna Fessler

Biographic Data

ID1246436
NAMESusanna Fessler
GIVEN NAMESSusanna
FAMILY NAMEFessler
SIGNATUREFESSLER S
AFFILIATIONSProfessor, East Asian Studies Department, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • The Accidental Diplomat: The Story of Anton L. C. Portman

    Susanna FesslerARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2025

    This is a biographical study of Anton L. C. Portman, who played a central but underappreciated role in early U.S.-Japan relations. Portman had begun as a commodore’s clerk on the Perry Expedition to Japan in 1853 when his multilingualism unexpectedly thrust him into the spotlight as the Dutch-English interpreter for the Americans. In doing so, he made personal connections with members of the Japanese government. Capitalizing on those relationship…

  • Traditions of East Asian Travel

    Steven D Carter, Marion Eggert et al.BOOKTraditions of East Asian Travel2022

    Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of thes…

  • Gunboat Diplomacy of a Different Kind: Robert H. Pruyn and Japan’s Purchase of U.S. Warships, 1862–1865

    Susanna FesslerARTICLEJournal of American-East Asian…2020References: 1

    This article examines the handling of a contract between the Shogunate of Japan and private agents in the United States for the construction of three ships of war in 1862. Robert H. Pruyn, the U.S. minister, received the original order and down payment from the Japanese government and assigned the contract to two private citizens in Albany, New York. Over the course of the next three years, complications from the U.S. Civil War and fluctuations i…

  • The Debate on the Uselessness of Western Studies

    Susanna FesslerARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2011

    In 1902, Mori O gai and Anesaki Cho fu briefl y engaged in a public debate on the importance of study abroad and Western learning in general. Cho fu was cautionary about Japan following foolishly in the steps of Germany; O gai countered with the argument that the West (and Germany in particular) offered intellectual riches as long as the Japanese student chose his subjects carefully. Neither man "won" the debate, but their arguments reveal how Ge…

  • Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko

    Eve Zimmerman, Fumiko Hayashi et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica2000

  • Gender is Fair Game: Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako

    Susanna Fessler, Michiko Niikuni WilsonARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2000

    Review of the book "Gender is Fair Game: (Re)Thinking the (Fe)Male in the Works of Oba Minako" by Michiko Niikuni Wilson

  • Wandering Heart: The Work and Method of Hayashi Fumiko

    Maryellen Toman Mori, Susanna FesslerARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1999

  • The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing

    Susanna Fessler, Paul Gordon Schalow et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of the Association of…1996

  • The Nature of the Kami. Ueda Akinari and Tandai Shoshin Roku

    Susanna FesslerARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1996

    Of particular concern for him was the nature of the kami js-th ethics (if any) and how those ethics reflected the cognitive nature of the beings themselves.In an age when the nature of the kami was being discussed by a number of kokugaku scholars, including the great Motoori Norinaga *FSAAR, 1730-1801, Akinari was but one voice in a crowd, yet his ideas on this issue differ distinctly from those of his peers.He agreed with them that Confucian and…