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发表于2024-11-08
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A vivid, deeply researched work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo--the city that would become Tokyo--and a portrait of a great city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother's. But after three divorces--and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family's approval--she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry's fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno's life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture--and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. Immersive and fascinating, Stranger in the Shogun's City is a revelatory work of history, layered with rich detail and delivered with beautiful prose, about the life of a woman, a city, and a culture.
Amy Stanley is an associate professor of history at Northwestern University. She lives in Evanston, Illinois, with her husband and two children, but Tokyo will always be her favorite city in the world.
To add to the poignancy of the tale, though, Tsuneno lived in the decades just before the arrival of " black ships" from America in 1853. As Tsuneno struggled to meet amid famine, rice riots, inflation and failed efforts to modernise this regime, her stories become an augury of Edo's downfall.
评分blurb说得很好了:" When a meticulous historian is also a gifted storyteller, time travel becomes possible." 这本书还有延伸的AHR文章可以很好展示微观史如何与全球史、性别史结合。
评分To add to the poignancy of the tale, though, Tsuneno lived in the decades just before the arrival of " black ships" from America in 1853. As Tsuneno struggled to meet amid famine, rice riots, inflation and failed efforts to modernise this regime, her stories become an augury of Edo's downfall.
评分To add to the poignancy of the tale, though, Tsuneno lived in the decades just before the arrival of " black ships" from America in 1853. As Tsuneno struggled to meet amid famine, rice riots, inflation and failed efforts to modernise this regime, her stories become an augury of Edo's downfall.
评分blurb说得很好了:" When a meticulous historian is also a gifted storyteller, time travel becomes possible." 这本书还有延伸的AHR文章可以很好展示微观史如何与全球史、性别史结合。
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Stranger in the Shogun's City pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024