Dr Rebekah Clements is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and Research Fellow of Queens' College. She has degrees from the University of Cambridge, Waseda University, Japan and the Australian National University, Canberra. She grew up in Cowra, Australia, a small country town with a long connection to Japan, having been the site of a mass breakout of Japanese POWs during WWII. From tragic beginnings a friendship between the townspeople and Japanese representatives developed in the post-war period, leading to numerous exchanges, and the Japanese language being taught to a high level at the local high school. Dr Clements' own interest in Japanese history and culture, and her fluency in Japanese date from this time.
Acknowledgements
List of names with Sinitic characters
A note on dates, transliteration, and names
Introduction
1. Language and society in Tokugawa Japan
2. Classical Japanese texts
3. 'Chinese' texts
4. Translation of Western languages
5. Late Tokugawa 'crisis translation'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
