The fascination of knowledge japanese enciclopedias and soft power a historical overview
The fascination of knowledge japanese enciclopedias and soft power a historical overview

Summary/Abstract: Emerged at the intersection between Japanese classical knowledge, mainly of Chinese origin, and imported western technology as well as technical knowhow, Japonese enciclopedias reflect Japan s ambitions to become a modern superpower. In a comparable way as western enciclopedias, Japanese enciclopedias deal, on one hand, with knowledge conceptualization and organisation as means to enforce a specific wordview as human experience and progress , and transcend, on the other hand, hidden interactions between knowledge and information in a transcultural historical context.

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