Marius B. Jansen
Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)[1] was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.[2]
He was born in Vleuten in the Netherlands to Gerarda and Bartus Jansen, a florist who moved his family to Johnston, Rhode Island in the fall of 1923.[3] Jansen grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton in 1943 and Harvard in 1950, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation.[4]
He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[2] and president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1976.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Marius Jansen, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 300+ publications in 12 languages and 13,900+ library holdings.[5]
- The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (1954)
- Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (1961)
- Japan and Communist China in the Next Decade (1964)
- Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (1965)
- Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (1968) John Whitney Hall and Marius Jansen, eds. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
- Japan and its World: Two Centuries of Change (1975)
- Japan and China: from War to Peace, 1894-1972 (1975)
- Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji (1986)
- China in the Tokugawa World (1992 ISBN 9780674184763) [1]; DeGruyter 2014) The 1988 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
- Japanese Today: Change and Continuity (1995) Edwin O. Reischauer, Marius B. Jansen[6]
- The Making of Modern Japan (2000)[7]
Honors
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1979.
- Order of the Sacred Treasure, 1985.[2]
- Japan Academy, 1999 [2]
- Person of Cultural Merit, 1999.[8]
See also
- Sakamoto Ryōma
- Ryōtarō Shiba famous popular fiction author of "Ryōma Coming to Us" which is a historical novel about Sakamoto Ryoma
- Ryōmaden NHK drama, the story of Sakamoto Ryōma
Notes
- ^ Library of Congress Authority File: Jansen, Marius B.; retrieved 2011-07-14
- ^ a b c d Princeton University, Office of Communications, "Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, scholar of Japanese history, dies," December 13, 2000.
- ^ Marius B. Jansen on the passenger list of the Volendam, September 29, 1923, in New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892-1924
- ^ The New York Times Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture December 26, 2000
- ^ WorldCat Identities Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine: Jansen, Marius B.
- ^ Japanese Today Harvard University Press Books
- ^ The Making of Modern Japan Harvard University Press Books
- ^ Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (Japan): Culture 2000.
References
- Saxon, Wolfgang. "Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture," New York Times. December 26, 2000
- "Obituary: Marius Jansen," Japan Times. December 14, 2000.
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