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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2015
      05 March 2015
      ISBN:
      9781316144671
      9781108080958
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316144671
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 442 Pages
      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, South-East Asian History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, South-East Asian History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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    A brilliant linguist, Sir Ernest Satow (1843–1929) was recruited into the British consular service as a student interpreter in 1861. The following year he arrived in Japan, where he witnessed the overthrow of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Meiji restoration of imperial rule. Drafted in the 1880s while he was consul-general in Bangkok, this 1921 account is based on the voluminous diaries Satow kept whilst in Japan between 1862 and 1869. As an interpreter he was present at many of the meetings between the diplomatic and military representatives of the Great Powers and of the Shogunate. Satow gives his opinions of the various officials he met, and describes the rising tensions that led to conflict between the Shogunate and the Emperor, civil war, and the reassertion of the Emperor's power. Satow's classic Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917) is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

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