To Stand with the Nations of the World —— Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History

----- 与世界各国相处：日本在明治世界历史上外交关系的恢复

ISBN: 9780195327717 出版年：2017 页码：329 Ravina, Mark Oxford University Press

In 1868, samurai radicals overthrew the last shogun in the name of ancient Japanese ways. Then they took an opposite course, building a modern Japanese state with the help of Western advisors. This book explains the paradox of the Meiji Restoration: revering the ancient past while embracing the foreign and new.