David Mervart
Biographic Data
| ID | 1346393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mervart |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mervart |
| SIGNATURE | MERVART D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heidelberg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5124-3692 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Reading European Universal Histories in Japan, 1790s–1840s
This article offers a case study in the nature of uses of the European past in East Asia at a time when the search for the knowledge of the West was not yet motivated primarily by any sense of its civilizational, moral, or technological superiority. In the course of the later eighteenth century, as Dutch philological expertise gradually became another available tool – alongside the long-established Sinological erudition – for generating knowledge…
Meiji Japan's China solution to Tokugawa Japan's China problem
The underlying concern of this article is with the function and purpose of the normative imaginary of 'China', Chūgoku (Zhongguo) or Chūka (Zhonghua) in the Japanese discourse up to and around the mid-nineteenth century; namely, how it was deployed to make sense of the historical situation facing the contemporaries amid the combined internal and external crises and how it structured the range of options available to them. To exemplify this, we fi…
The Point of the Centre
With the rise of China over the recent decades, both economic and geopolitical, pundits have increasingly come to remind us that once upon a time what we now call China was the centre of its world. The implication invariably is that just like the historical China was once a centre of global gravity, its current trajectory may be expected to bring today's China inexorably back into the centre of the global order from which it only briefly abstaine…
Ideology and Christianity in Japan
After volumes on the political philosophy of the Kyoto school (Goto-Jones 2005) and on the role of the left in Japanese democracy (Kersten and Williams 2006), Kiri Paramore's book is another recent addition to the series of monographs on Japanese history, thought and politics, the fruit of the cooperation between the Modern East Asia Research Centre at Leiden University and Routledge publishers. To get the main complaint out of the way first: the…
A closed country in the open seas
By offering an apology of Japan's closed country policy, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716) was contributing not so much to the literature of exotic journey record, but rather to the field of European political and moral theory, and importantly to the debate over the relative merits of ancient and modern societies and effects of international commerce. There is a marked lack of scholarly attention given to Kaempfer as a modestly interesting political…
Meiji Japan's China solution to Tokugawa Japan's China problem
The underlying concern of this article is with the function and purpose of the normative imaginary of 'China', Chūgoku (Zhongguo) or Chūka (Zhonghua) in the Japanese discourse up to and around the mid-nineteenth century; namely, how it was deployed to make sense of the historical situation facing the contemporaries amid the combined internal and external crises and how it structured the range of options available to them. To exemplify this, we fi…
A closed country in the open seas
By offering an apology of Japan's closed country policy, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716) was contributing not so much to the literature of exotic journey record, but rather to the field of European political and moral theory, and importantly to the debate over the relative merits of ancient and modern societies and effects of international commerce. There is a marked lack of scholarly attention given to Kaempfer as a modestly interesting political…
A closed country in the open seas
By offering an apology of Japan's closed country policy, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651–1716) was contributing not so much to the literature of exotic journey record, but rather to the field of European political and moral theory, and importantly to the debate over the relative merits of ancient and modern societies and effects of international commerce. There is a marked lack of scholarly attention given to Kaempfer as a modestly interesting political…
Ideology and Christianity in Japan
After volumes on the political philosophy of the Kyoto school (Goto-Jones 2005) and on the role of the left in Japanese democracy (Kersten and Williams 2006), Kiri Paramore's book is another recent addition to the series of monographs on Japanese history, thought and politics, the fruit of the cooperation between the Modern East Asia Research Centre at Leiden University and Routledge publishers. To get the main complaint out of the way first: the…
Meiji Japan's China solution to Tokugawa Japan's China problem
The underlying concern of this article is with the function and purpose of the normative imaginary of 'China', Chūgoku (Zhongguo) or Chūka (Zhonghua) in the Japanese discourse up to and around the mid-nineteenth century; namely, how it was deployed to make sense of the historical situation facing the contemporaries amid the combined internal and external crises and how it structured the range of options available to them. To exemplify this, we fi…
The Point of the Centre
With the rise of China over the recent decades, both economic and geopolitical, pundits have increasingly come to remind us that once upon a time what we now call China was the centre of its world. The implication invariably is that just like the historical China was once a centre of global gravity, its current trajectory may be expected to bring today's China inexorably back into the centre of the global order from which it only briefly abstaine…
Reading European Universal Histories in Japan, 1790s–1840s
This article offers a case study in the nature of uses of the European past in East Asia at a time when the search for the knowledge of the West was not yet motivated primarily by any sense of its civilizational, moral, or technological superiority. In the course of the later eighteenth century, as Dutch philological expertise gradually became another available tool – alongside the long-established Sinological erudition – for generating knowledge…
Chinese history and philosophy (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · China (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works)