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slash Japan to claim your offer. This week I'm going to recommend unfabling the East,

The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia by Jürgen Osterhammel.

This is a fascinating topic that I've actually wanted to do an episode on for a while.

One of the interesting things about the European Enlightenment is that European thinkers

spent a lot of time thinking about, talking about, and discussing what was going on in Asia.

Oster Hamill's book is all about taking this discourse, explaining where it comes from,

and unpacking its history. Why are a bunch of thinkers in France so worked up about what's

going on off in China? Well, go to audibletrial.com slash Japan, give it 312, Freedom in People's Rights, part three.

When we talk about the freedom and people's rights movement, we usually think of it as having three distinct levels.

First, there was the level of political leadership, the Jiu-to, the Kaishinto, Itigaki, Taiske, Okumashiganobu, that whole crowd.

Then there was the countryside movement we talked about last week, with branches like the one we talked about in Ytsukai-chi all over Japan. Third and finally, there are the perpetrators of

the so-called Gekhajikin, the violent incidents of the movement. From 1881 to

1887 there were no less than 10 distinct violent actions related to the freedom and people's

rights movement in some context, though the precise degree of that relationship could vary

quite a bit.

These incidents were also spread geographically all over Japan.

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