Strange Parallels: Japan
Robert Hellyer
In chapter 1 of volume 2 Strange Parallels , Victor Lieberman urges the reader to understand that: “The excitement Eurasian comparisons derives not from a spurious superficial identity, but juxtaposition overarching similarities with idiosyncratic local outcomes” (Lieberman 2009, 119). “Creating Japan,” Chapter 4 same volume, convincingly shows that offer valuable, and truly exciting, lens explore Japan circa 800 1830. He identifies numerous provocative parallels other states present only fresh ways consider within world history, also locate assess elements Japanese experience.
The Journal of Asian Studies