Japan's Orient Quotes

“My assumption, which goes against the orthodox view of knowledge, is that there is no direct correlation between objects and knowledge and that understanding is constantly recreated. This work is thus part of a growing body of literature in the social sciences and humanities that questions the possibility of a singular truth.”
― Stefan Tanaka, Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History

“Shina is the Japanese appellation for China most commonly used during the first half of the twentieth century. After World War II the name for China reverted to chugoku (Middle Kingdom), a common name from before the Meiji Restoration (1868).4”
― Stefan Tanaka, Japan's Orient: Rendering Pasts into History