Perry
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Perry is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between November 10, 2023 and June 21, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Perry writes”; “Soon after Perry’s arrival”; “Perry’s arrival”. It most often appears alongside EEGManyLabs, 23andme, @freeshreeda.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: November 10, 2023
- Last seen: June 21, 2024
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Fukuzawa says that the arrival of Commodore Perry’s ships in 1853 and 1854 “made its impression on every remote town in Japan.” The resulting treaty, the Convention of Kanagawa, opened select Japanese ports to American ships. Harmless as such a treaty may sound, the Japanese had just watched Britain attack the Qing dynasty over domestic trade policy. Japan seemed destined to endure a similar loss of sovereignty now that the Americans had gotten a foot in the door.
Soon after Perry’s arrival, Fukuzawa’s older brother tells him that Japan needs more people to study Western science. He asks Fukuzawa: “Are you willing to learn the Dutch language?”
Whether or not the scholars and poets had a point, such sentiments were also indicative of what the kids today would call “massive cope.” After the arrival of Perry’s ships, notions of Japanese supremacy had collided headlong with an unforgiving reality wherein Japan was at the mercy of powerful and predatory Western nations.