Japanese cultural history

Author: Ye Weiqiu
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Publish Date: 2003-04-01
Features: This is a concise history of Japanese culture. The author first examines the religious, academic, and artistic achievements autonomously generated by the Japanese people in their daily lives, as well as the cultural spirit that is condensed from these achievements. Secondly, the author studies the exchange between Japanese culture and foreign cultures—in particular, ancient Japan with China and modern Japan with the West—and the inherent autonomy of Japanese culture's internal development and its subjective initiative in external exchanges during the collision and integration of the two cultures. From this, the book unfolds a discussion on the history of Japanese cultural development.