Beatrice Bodart-Bailey

Beatrice Bodart-Bailey is a German Australian academic, author and Japanologist. She was named professor of economics at Kobe University, becoming "the first female and first non-Japanese person actually appointed by the Ministry of Education."^[1]

Early life

Bodart-Bailey was born in Germany. Her early education was in German and British schools. She earned a BA at the Australian National University (ANU). Her master's and doctorate degrees were awarded at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) at ANU in Canberra.^[1] Her MA thesis investigated "The Political Significance of the Tea Master Sen no Rikyū (1522-1591)". Her 1980 Ph.D. thesis examined "Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (1658-1714)".^[2]

Her marriage to an Australian diplomat caused her to follow him as his career developed, including postings in Bangkok, Thailand and Ottawa, Canada.^[1]

Career

In 1982-1986, Bodart-Bailey was a visiting professor at Ottawa University, teaching Japanese history.^[2] She returned to ANU for post-graduate studies.^[1]

Between 1986 and 1995, she was granted various research fellowships at ANU.^[2]

In 1989-1990, she was awarded a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo. She has been a professor in the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, and at Kobe University.^[2]

In 1991 she became professor of Japanese history at Otsuma Women's University, where she was a founding member of the Department of Comparative Culture.^[1]

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Beatrice Bodart Bailey, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 30+ works in 30+ publications in 2 languages and 170+ library holdings.^[3]

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• Tea and Counsel, the Political Role of Sen Rikyū (1977)
• Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu: a Reappraisal (1980)
• Kaempfer Restored (1988)
• Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646-1709): a Weberian analysis (1989)
• A case of political and economic expropriation : the monetary reform of the fifth Tokugawa shogun (1989)
• Engelbart Kämpfer (1990)
• 遙かなる目的地: ケンペルと德川日本の出会い (1999)
• The Most Magnificent Monastery and Other Famous Sights: the Japanese Paintings of Engelbert Kaempfer (1992)
• The Persecution of Confucianism in Early Tokugawa Japan (1993)
• ケンペルと德川綱吉: ドイツ人医師と将軍との交流 (1994)
• The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan (1995)
• Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed (1999)
• The Dog Shogun: the Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (2006)
• ケンペル: 礼節の国に来たりて (2009)

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