Download or read book Proliferating Talent written by Motoyama Yukihiko and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Detailed and diverse, Proliferating Talent challenges us to rethink a crucial period in Japanese history. The eight essays translated here broadly cover the eventful half century that witnessed the collapse of the Tokugawa shogunate and the rise of the modern Japanese state to the position of an international power. Edited by J.S.A. Elisonas and Richard Rubinger, professors of East Asian languages and cultures at Indiana University, Proliferating Talent is full of nuances and carefully textured readings in which local developments are carefully balanced against major national events.