Griffis in Japan: The Fukui Interlude, 1871

Beauchamp, Edward R.

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“…Concerning the political and migration consequences due to the return of Hong Kong to the China, we find the works of Cheng (1990) and Skeldon (1990 Matthews (1995) and the BD in Japan is studied in the works of Dore (1972) [Japan and the importance of the tradition on the Education policies] and Rostow (1985) [Japanese or American commercial leadership for the Pacific Zone]. 20 We find the works of McCain (1979McCain ( , 1980 [Ghana], Udofia (1984) …”

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The Brain Drain: A Survey of the Literature

Giannoccolo

2009

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This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on Brain Drain (BD). We propose an ideal path that links the first studies with the most recent ones. In this development, the literature on BD focuses on a variety of economic and social issues and recalls to national and international debates. This paper uses more than 350 articles from a variety of sources. The sources are specialized professionals journals, internet research engines, governmental publications and newspapers. In the first part we analyse briefly the BD, its different definitions and the historical roots of the BD. This part shows that the BD is a wide and complex phenomenon. In the second part, we propose an ideal path to interpret the literature. This part analyses how BD is linked to political and social events, according to the Economy.

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The Brain Drain: A Survey of the Literature

Giannoccolo

2009

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“…Griffis's relationship with Japan began when he taught English to a visiting scholar in America. He subsequently traveled to Japan in 1871 to help the local feudal authorities establish a new ‘internationalized’ education system in the Fukui Domain, and also worked in Tokyo between 1872 and 1874 (Beauchamp, 427). Honda is set in the 1850s and 60s.…”

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Samurai and Gentlemen: The Anglophone Japan Corpus and New Avenues into Orientalism (Part II)

Holt

2014

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The article as a whole seeks to explore new ways of looking at the literature of intercultural encounter using ideas of culture shock, cultural adaptation, and narrative theory. It also demonstrates the importance of Anglophone literature about Japan to the understanding of how writers from the late 19th and early 20th centuries sought to engage with people from other ethnic groups. From the 1850s, when Japan ended its policy of national isolation, until the beginning of World War II, the literary marketplace was flooded with numerous English‐language texts, which dealt with almost every aspect of Japanese life, covering subjects as diverse as art and design, botany, geology, women's rights, war, public health, theater, linguistics, and religion. However, despite the size of this Anglophone Japan corpus, only well‐known texts such as Isabella Bird's Unbeaten Tracks in Japan and the works of Lafcadio Hearn have attracted substantial in‐depth analysis. One reason for the neglect of the field is that previous decades of scholars regarded this literature as too ephemeral to be worth studying. Another may be that conventional Saidian frameworks for interpreting the literature of cultural encounter fail to provide a satisfactory understanding of relationships between westerners and the Japanese. However, this resistance to Saidian interpretation means that the Anglophone Japan corpus is ideal for testing alternative readings of cross‐cultural literature. After having made a brief overview of Anglophone literature on Japan and investigating some of the new strategies being put forward for interpreting these texts in the first section of the paper, I now go on to present a case study of one theme which dominated discussions of Japan in the early 20th century: the figure of the samurai and the idea of ‘Bushidō’ (the ‘way of the samurai’). By undertaking this analysis, I demonstrate how ideas of culture shock and narrative psychology can be used to give a more nuanced understanding of the personal and social motives behind the literature of intercultural encounter.

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Griffis in Japan: The Fukui Interlude, 1871

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The Brain Drain: A Survey of the Literature

The Brain Drain: A Survey of the Literature

Samurai and Gentlemen: The Anglophone Japan Corpus and New Avenues into Orientalism (Part II)

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