Tohda: Asian Images in the Nineteenth-Century British Reviews (6-vol. set)

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This is a collection of more than 120 articles and book reviews on Japan, China, and India published in the four leading British reviews of the nineteenth century (the Quarterly Review, Edinburgh Review, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and the Westminster Review). The selection from those reviews, which represented the four principal shades of mainstream contemporary political opinion (conservative, liberal, radical, and Tory), shows us the variety of Victorian views on Asia and enables us to trace their chronological changes. Contributors include important Orientalists and/or Japanologists, such as L. Oliphant, R. Alcock, J. Conder, F. V. Dickins, R. K. Douglas, and economists such as H. Martineau.

Table of Contents

Volume 1: Japan, Part 1 (#1–19: 1852–71), c. 460pp.

Volume 2: Japan, Part 2 (#20–38: 1872–1900), c. 480pp.

Volume 3: China, Part 1 (#1–16: 1853–71) c. 485pp.

Volume 4: China, Part 2 (#17–40: 1872–1900), c. 520pp.

Volume 5: India, Part 1 (#1–18: 1852–63), c. 600pp.

Volume 6: India, Part 2 (#19–41: 1866–1900), c. 580pp.

Volume 1: Japan, Part 1 (#1–19: 1852–71)

1. (A. A. Knox), ‘Japan’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 96, 1852, pp. 348–83. Including reviews of:

Scheuzer, Kämpfer’s Histoire de l’Empire du Japon, 1729

Golownin, Memoirs of Captivity in Japan, 1824

Dr. Von Siebold, Nippon; Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan

Raffles’ History of Java

Charlevoix, Histoire du Japon

Ashby’s Collection of Voyages and Travels. The Voyage of Captain John Saris/Tracts by Mr. Richard Cocks, Cape Merchant /The Voyage of William Adams, Pilot, to Japan, written by Himself

2. (S. Osborn), ‘A Cruise in Japanese Waters’ I, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 84, 1858, pp. 635–46

3. (S. Osborn), ‘A Cruise in Japanese Waters’ II, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 85, 1859, pp. 49–70

4. (S. Osborn), ‘A Cruise in Japanese Waters’ III, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 85, 1859, pp. 239–50

5. (S. Osborn), ‘A Cruise in Japanese Waters’ IV, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 85, 1859, pp. 393–412

6. (S .Osborn), ‘A Cruise in Japanese Waters’ V, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 85, 1859, pp. 532–45

7. (F. M. Drummond-Davis), ‘Japan’, Westminster Review, Vol. 73, 1860, pp. 508–40. Including reviews of:

Kämpfer, Engelbert, The History of Japan, 1727

Le Père de Charlevoix, Histoire et Description Générale de Japon, 1736

Rundall, Thomas, Memorials of the Empire of Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, 1850

Hawks, Francis (comp.), Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1856

Tronson, J. M., Personal Narrative of a Voyage to Japan, Kamschatka, Siberia, Tartary, and various parts of the Coast of China, in H.M.S. Barracouta, 1859

Oliphant, Laurence, Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan, in the years 1857, ’58, and ’59, 1859

8. (H. Reeve), ‘Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 111, 1860, pp. 96–118. Including a review of:

Oliphant, Laurence, Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan, in the years 1857, ’58, and ’59, 1860

9. (J. White), ‘Lord Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 87, 1860, pp. 255–77.

10. (R. Alcock), ‘Japan and the Japanese’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 113, 1861, pp. 37–73. Including reviews of:

Correspondence with Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Japan, 1860

Alcock, Rutherford, First Elements of Japanese Grammar for the Use of Beginners, 1861

11. (A. Wilson), ‘The Inland Sea of Japan’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 90, 1861, pp. 613–23

12. (L. Oliphant), ‘Political Tragedies in Japan’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 91, 1862, pp. 424–33

13. (L. Oliphant), ‘Sensation Diplomacy in Japan’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 93, 1863, pp. 397–413

14. (H. Reeve), ‘Sir Rutherford Alcock’s Japan’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 117, 1863, pp. 517–40. Including reviews of:

Alcock, Rutherford, The Capital of Tycoon, a Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in Japan, 1863

Correspondence respecting Affairs, Japan, 1863

15. (J. H. Tremenheere), ‘Japan’, Quarterly Review, Vol. 114, 1863, pp. 449–80. Including reviews of:

Correspondence respecting Affairs in Japan in 1862 and 1863

Alcock, Rutherford, The Capital of Tycoon: a Narrative of a Three Years’ Residence in Japan, 1863

Narrative of the Earl of Elgin’s Mission to China and Japan in the Years 1857, 1858, 1859, 1859

Osborn, Captain Sherard, Japanese Sketches, 1862

Hodgson, Pemberton, A Residence in Nagasaki and Hakodadi in 1859–1860, 1861

Smith, George, Ten Weeks in Japan, 1861

Fonblanque, Edward Barrington, Niphon and Pe-che-li; or, Two Years in Japan and Northern China, 1862

Fortune, Robert, Yedo and Peking: a Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China, with Notices of the Natural Productions, Agriculture, Horticulture, and Trade of those Countries, 1863

Maron, Hermann, Japan und China Reiseskizzen, 1863

16. (R. Alcock), ‘China and Japan’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 122, 1865, pp. 175–202. Including reviews of:

Correspondence relating to the Affairs of China, 1862–1864

Correspondence respecting Affairs in Japan, 1864, 1865

Michie, Alexander, The Siberian Overland Route, 1865

Stephenson, Sir Macdonald, Report on Railroads in China

Lay, Horatio W., Our Interests in China

17. (L. Oliphant), ‘The Moral and Political Revolution in Japan’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 101, 1867, pp. 427–43

18. Anon, ‘Ancient Japanese Poetry’, Westminster Review, Vol. 94, 1870, pp. 321–40. Including reviews of:

Giram, João Rodriguez, MS. Treatise in Portuguese on the Japanese Language

Man-yô-shiu; or, Collection of 10,000 Leaves, 1805

Wa-kan-san-sai-dsu-ye; or, Sinico-Japanese Encyclopaedia

Ko-kin-shiu; or, Selection of Poems Ancient and Modern

Reports of the Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften of Vienna for the years 1852–1854

19. (W. W. Ireland), ‘The Hundred Years of Christianity in Japan’, Quarterly Review, Vol. 130, 1871, pp. 534–55. Including reviews of:

Nihon o Daï Itsi Ran, ou Annales des Empereurs du Japon, 1834

Siebold, Fr. Von, Nippon: Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 1851

Pagès, M. Léon, Bibliographie japonaise ou Catalogue des Ouvrages Relatifs au Japon qui ont été publiés dépuis le XVe, 1859

Venn, Henry, The Missionary Life and Labours of Francais Xavier, taken from his own Correspondence, with a Sketch of the General Results of Roman Catholic Missions among the Heathen, 1862

Dickson, Walter, Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government, and Officers of the Empire, 1869

Volume 2: Japan, Part 2 (#20–38: 1872–1900)

20. (R. Alcock), ‘Reform in Japan’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 136, 1872, pp. 244–69. Including a review of:

Lanman, Charles, The Japanese in America, 1872

21. (F. Marshall), ‘Japan’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 112, 1872, pp. 369–88.

22. (H. Reeve), ‘Baron Hubner’s Trip round the World’, Edinburgh Review, Vol. 138, 1873, pp. 65–94. Including reviews of:

Hübner, M. le Baron de, Promenade autour du Monde, 1871, 1873

Beauvoir, Marquis de, Voyage autour du Monde, 1870

23. (A. I. Shand), ‘The Romance of the Japanese Revolution’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 115, 1874, pp. 696–712

24. (R. Alcock), ‘Japan as it was and is’, Quarterly Review, Vol. 137, 1874, pp. 189–218. Including reviews of:

Mossman, Samuel, New Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun; its Annals during the past Twenty Years, recording the remarkable progress of the Japanese in Western Civilization, 1873

Adams, Francis Ottewell, The History of Japan from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, 1874

Lowder, John Frederic, The Legacy of Iyeyas (deified as Gongen Sama), a post-humous Manuscript in One Hundred Chapters

25. (A. Hayward), ‘A Ramble round the World’, Quarterly Review, Vol. 143, 1877, pp. 238–76. Including reviews of:

Hübner, M. le Baron de, Promenade autour du Monde, 1871, 1877