| FO-263411-19 | Research Programs: Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan | Amy Stanley | Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her Worlds, 1800-1853 | 1/1/2019 - 6/30/2019 | $30,000.00 | Amy | | Stanley | | | | Northwestern University | Evanston | IL | 60208-0001 | USA | 2018 | East Asian History | Fellowships for Advanced Social Science Research on Japan | Research Programs | 30000 | 0 | 30000 | 0 | Research and writing leading to publication of a book on the social history of the Japanese city of Edo (now Tokyo) and its place in the world, based on the surviving handwritten letters of an ordinary nineteenth-century Japanese woman.
This project uses the history of an ordinary Japanese woman to reconsider the social history of Edo from the perspective of a rural migrant to the city. Aimed at a general audience, it introduces readers outside the field to the history of the city and the position of Japan in the world during the first half of the nineteenth century. |