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Asia's Appeal to America
By Sidney L. Gulick
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An important reason for our Western thought, that the Japanese have
had no independence in philosophy, is our ignorance of the larger
part of Japanese and Chinese literature. Oriental speculation was
moving in a direction so diverse from that of the West that we are
impressed more with the general similarity that prevails throughout
it than with the evidences of individual differences. Greater
knowledge would reveal these differences. In our generalized
knowledge, we see the uniformity so strongly that we fail to
discover the originality. -from Chapter XVI American educator and
missionary SIDNEY LEWIS GULICK (1860-1945) spent his life building
a bridge between East and West during a period of immense confusion
between the two diverse traditions. During the more than 25 years
he spent in Japan as a teacher and lecturer in a variety of
subjects, including English and religion, he learned as much about
Japanese society as he taught about Western culture, and midway
through his sojourn in the slowly modernizing nation, he wrote this
forgotten classic of social science. First published in 1903,
Evolution of the Japanese is a startling clear-eyed assessment of a
foreign way of life, yet one that evinces an atypical awareness on
the writer's part of his own cultural assumptions about everything
from the relative position of women and the habits of marital
relationships to such traits of national character as cheerfulness,
industry, jealousy, and suspicion. Art and family, intellectualism
and morality, religion and philosophy-Gulick discusses them all in
this intriguing work, one that reveals as much about the Western
mind at the turn of the 20th century as it does about the Eastern.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1937.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1937.
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