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This account gives us our first truly foreign perspective of life inside the Middle Kingdom - a place where the dead are fed until the living are bankrupt, and healthcare and education are subsidized by the state. Written in 851 and added to 50 years later by renowned Arab sailor Abu Zayd al-Sirafi.

Enormous thanks to translator Tim Mackintosh-Smith and the Library of Arabic Literature for the use of this translation. https://nyupress.org/9781479830596/accounts-of-china-and-india/

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Whilst in prison at the end of the Thirteenth Century Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa began to hear extraordinary tales from his cell mate. That man turned out to be a Venetian merchant named Marco Polo. The tales that Polo then narrated to Rustichello eventually became the ‘Book of the Marvels of the World’. Usually known to us today as ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’.

This is Part Two of the Preface, concerning the travels of Marco Polo’s father and uncle.

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This is an original work by the Thirteenth Century writer Rustichello da Pisa and Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo. Written over seven hundred years ago to record Polo’s extraordinary travels for posterity it remains one of the most important chronicles of the Medieval World, especially in regards to European involvement in the rest of Eurasia.

The words of this video come directly from Rustichello and Polo themselves, translated in the Nineteenth Century by Sir Henry Yule and slightly revised by Henri Cordier .

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Text taken from 'Revival: Little Golden America' (1944) (Routledge Revivals) by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov.

https://www.amazon.com/Revival-Little-America-Routledge-Revivals/dp/1138567515

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Extracts taken from "The Recollections of Rifleman Harris" by Benjamin Randell Harris (1848).

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Many thanks to Seyed Benyamin Keshavarz (Baron Benyamin aka Getsugawa Yuzuru) for this translation, taken from:

The trip to Iran and the Asia Minor : The travels of Toyokichi YENĀGĀ (1899)

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Extracts taken from "THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF CONTAINING A TRUE AND FULL ACCOUNT

OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF MEXICO AND NEW SPAIN."

TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH BY

JOHN INGRAM LOCKHART, F.R.A.S.

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00:00 Introduction

04:20 The End of the Beginning

10:31 Japan Meets The World

18:00 Business Opportunities

20:33 Meat

24:57 Upgrading The Military

30:22 Rebellion

37:11 Big in the West

44:36 Climbing the Ladder

48:15 Tension with the West

52:58 The First Rank of Nations

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Bibliography:

Beasley, William. 1995. Japan Encounters the Barbarian. Japanese Travellers in America

    and Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

Bird, Isabella. 2006. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Saitama: Japan and Stuff Press.

Checkland, Olive. 2003. Japan and Britain after 1859 – Creating Cultural Bridges. London

and New York: Routledge.

Cwiertka, Katarzyna. 2006. Modern Japanese Cuisine. Food, Power and National Identity.

London: Reaktion Books.

De Coningh, Assendelft. 2012. A Pioneer in Yokohama. A Dutchman’s Adventures in the

New Treaty Port. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing.

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Gotham Books.

Esposito, Gabriele. 2020. Japanese Armies 1868-1877. Oxford: Osprey Publishing.

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Bethesda, Dublin and Palo Alto:     Academica.

Jansen, Marius. 1994. Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration. New York: Columbia 

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Jansen, Marius. 2000. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA and London: The

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Koyama, Noboru. 2007. Japanese Tattooists and the British Royal Family during the Meiji

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00:00 Introduction

3:14 Japan: The Idea

6:43 The Journey

10:04 Portugal

14:56 Spain

21:23 Italy and Rome

29:33 Home Again

Written by Thomas Lockley.

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Boscaro, Adriana. 1973. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1587 Edicts Against Christianity

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Üçerler, M. Antoni J. 2003. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer

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Extracts taken from "The Cosmotheoros" or "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets" by Christiaan Huygens (translated from the Latin, published in 1698)

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In 1901 the 'Ladies Home Journal' published an article describing the advances predicted to happen in the next hundred years. Flying ships, x-rays, enormous strawberries - the success rate is surprisingly high.

Video actor and editor: David Kelly

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