cultural imperialism

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon Nov 19 09:44:18 PST 2001


In message <p05001903b81e68e0bc94@[140.254.112.171]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes


>I majored in English at Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku (= Tokyo University of
>Foreign Studies); I'm still (!) in the Department of English at OSU.
>
>Tokyo Gaigo Daigaku traces its history back to Bansho Shirabesho (=
>Institute for the Study of Barbarian Documents) established in 1856 (I
>think), a Tokugawa governmental institution for translation of European
>documents (Portuguese, Spanish, & Dutch at first & later English,
>German, & French) into Japanese.

Appropriately named


>
>***** ...This particular institution [Bansho Sirabesho] did not teach
>economics, but numerous members of its staff (most notably Kanda
>Takahira and Tsuda Mamichi) were the first translators and propagators
>of Western Economic thought....
>

I've seen some of this intellectual history of Japanese importation of political economy referred to before, in Makoto Itoh's boon on Value and Crisis [?].

Would you rate Makoto Itoh as a radical economist, Yoshie?

-- James Heartfield



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