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K9551.10 --- K9130 --- Korea: International politics, law and relations -- East Asia --- Korea: History -- general histories --- World politics --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Korea --- Foreign relations.

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Following the pioneering work of Francis Xavier in establishing Christianity in Japan, his successor Alessandro Valignano, decided to send a legation to Europe representing the three Christian daimyo of Kyushu, southern Japan. It consisted of two Christian samurai boys who were chosen as legates, together with two teenage companions. The group set sail from Nagasaki in February 1582 and were to be away for eight years. The purpose of the mission was twofold: it would give Europeans the chance of seeing Japanese people at first hand and appreciating their culture, thereby publicising the work of the Catholic Church in Japan and so (it was hoped) increase much-needed financial support; and secondly on their return to Japan the envoys would give eyewitness reports of the splendours of Renaissance Europe, thus moderating Japanese notions about the outside world and foreign barbarians. The boys travelled through Portugal, Spain and Italy and were feted wherever they went. In Venice, the authorities even postponed the annual festival in honour of St Mark, the city's patron, so that the Japanese might view the spectacle. More importantly, the boys met Philip II of Spain several times, as well as Pope Gregory XIII and his successor Sixtus V. This is the first book-length study in English of the mission and provides important new insights into the work of the Jesuits in Japan and the nature of the legation's impact on late-sixteenth-century European perceptions of Japan.

J3355 --- J1982.54 --- J4813 --- J4810.50 --- Japan: History -- Chūsei -- Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1615), unification of Japan --- Japan: Religion -- Christianity -- history -- Christian century (1543-1639) --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Muromachi, Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods (1392-1615) --- Tenshō Kenʾō Shisetsu, 1582-1590. --- Japanese --- Samurai --- Christianity --- Travel --- History --- Jesuits --- Europe --- Description and travel --- J1920.50 --- Catholics, Asian --- Ethnology --- Asian Catholics

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United States Naval Expedition to Japan --- Japan --- Japon --- History --- Histoire --- J4815.11 --- J4810.70 --- J3367 --- 952 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- North America -- United States --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: History -- Kinsei, Edo period -- kaikoku and bakumatsu (1853-1867) --- Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan --- Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan --- Expedition of the American Squadron to Japan --- Expedition to the China Seas and Japan --- Perry Expedition to Japan --- Perry's Expedition to Japan --- U.S. Naval Expedition to Japan --- United States Expedition to Japan --- United States Japan Expedition --- -J4815.11 --- -United States Naval Expedition to Japan --- Nihon --- Nippon --- Iapōnia --- Zhāpān --- I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ --- Yapan --- Japão --- Japam --- Mư̄ang Yīpun --- Prathēt Yīpun --- Yīpun --- Jih-pen --- Riben --- Government of Japan --- -952 --- Japan - History - Restoration, 1853-1870

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The Eurocentric conventional wisdom holds that the West is unique in having a multi-state system in international relations and liberal democracy in state-society relations. At the same time, the Sinocentric perspective believes that China is destined to have authoritarian rule under a unified empire. In fact, China in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (656-221 BC) was once a system of sovereign territorial states similar to Europe in the early modern period. Both cases witnessed the prevalence of war, formation of alliances, development of the centralized bureaucracy, emergence of citizenship rights, and expansion of international trade. This book, first published in 2005, examines why China and Europe shared similar processes but experienced opposite outcomes. This historical comparison of China and Europe challenges the presumption that Europe was destined to enjoy checks and balances while China was preordained to suffer under a coercive universal status.

State, The --- War --- World politics --- S06/0200 --- S06/0260 --- S09/0200 --- Colonialism --- Global politics --- International politics --- Political history --- Political science --- World history --- Eastern question --- Geopolitics --- International organization --- International relations --- Armed conflict (War) --- Conflict, Armed (War) --- Fighting --- Hostilities --- Wars --- Military art and science --- Administration --- Commonwealth, The --- Sovereignty --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: general and before 1911 --- China: Politics and government--The Chinese model --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works and before 1840 --- China --- Europe --- Politics and government --- Politics and government. --- Politics --- World politics. --- State, The. --- War. --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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History --- Belgium --- Japan --- Belgique --- België --- Geschiedenis van de nieuwe tijden --- Histoire des temps modernes --- Internationale betrekkingen --- Japon --- Relations internationales --- geschiedenis --- Japonisme --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- oorlogen --- politiek --- economie --- Winiwarter, Hans de --- Maeterlinck, Maurice --- Kaneko, Mitshuaru --- Kojima, Torajiro --- Khnopff, Fernand --- Lepage (familie) --- 16de eeuw --- 17de eeuw --- 18de eeuw --- 19de eeuw --- 20ste eeuw --- 21ste eeuw --- 327 <493> --- 327 <52> --- 952 --- J4542.21 --- J4813.21 --- Academic collection --- C3 --- invloedssfeer (x) --- interactie (x) --- internationale samenwerking --- Japan [land in werelddeel Azië] --- België [land - BE] --- cultuur --- nieuwe tijd (x) --- nieuwste tijd (x) --- missie --- iconografisch materiaal --- 327.493 --- Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Buitenlandse politiek. Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale politiek. Wereldpolitiek--België --- Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Buitenlandse politiek. Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale politiek. Wereldpolitiek--Japan en omliggende eilanden --- Geschiedenis van Japan --- Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- international trade, economic relations and policy -- Europe -- Belgium --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- Belgium --- Kunst en cultuur --- Social sciences International relations Belgium --- Exhibitions --- HIS History & Biographies --- cultural history --- arts --- 952 Geschiedenis van Japan --- 327 <52> Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Buitenlandse politiek. Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale politiek. Wereldpolitiek--Japan en omliggende eilanden --- 327 <493> Buitenlandse betrekkingen. Buitenlandse politiek. Internationale betrekkingen. Internationale politiek. Wereldpolitiek--België --- 952 History of Japan --- History of Japan --- stijlen in beeldende kunst (Japonisme) --- geschiedenis. --- Japonisme. --- cultuurgeschiedenis. --- oorlogen. --- politiek. --- economie. --- Winiwarter, Hans de. --- Maeterlinck, Maurice. --- Kaneko, Mitshuaru. --- Kojima, Torajiro. --- Khnopff, Fernand. --- Lepage (familie). --- 16de eeuw. --- 17de eeuw. --- 18de eeuw. --- 19de eeuw. --- 20ste eeuw. --- 21ste eeuw. --- Japan. --- België. --- Relations exterieures