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Podróż w poszukiwaniu wiedzy – Szkic o misji Iwakury Tomomi

Publication date: 18.05.2016

Gdansk Journal of East Asian Studies, 2016, Issue 9, pp. 15 - 26

https://doi.org/10.4467/23538724GS.16.002.5005

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Mateusz Stępień
Faculty of Law and Administration Jagiellonian University, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1124-8955 Orcid
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Podróż w poszukiwaniu wiedzy – Szkic o misji Iwakury Tomomi

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to make an initial reconstruction and to undertake a preliminary analysis of the profound expedition of Japanese statesmen to the West (so called The Iwakura Mission) held in the second half of the nineteenth century. The basic purpose of The Iwakura Mission was to search for information and data (especially related to the shape of the legal and political system which would strengthen the Japanese state and society). The Iwakura Mission was a paradigmatic example not only for the next Japanese overseas expeditions, but also for the very similar embassies undertaken in the Middle Kingdom. The Author attempts to work out some preliminary findings necessary to propose more sophisticated set of hypotheses related to the processes of traveling as a source of knowledge on legal and political issues in the future. In this sense, the study of The Iwakura Mission is also a small contribution to developing both a socio-legal theory of inter-cultural transmission of legal knowledge and general theory of copying foreign laws.

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Information: Gdansk Journal of East Asian Studies, 2016, Issue 9, pp. 15 - 26

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Podróż w poszukiwaniu wiedzy – Szkic o misji Iwakury Tomomi

English:

The journey in search of knowledge: a brief sketch of the Iwakura Tomomi mission

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1124-8955

Mateusz Stępień
Faculty of Law and Administration Jagiellonian University, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1124-8955 Orcid
All publications →

Faculty of Law and Administration Jagiellonian University, ul. Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków

Published at: 18.05.2016

Article status: Open

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