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Ronald P Toby PhD

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Contact Information

History 302 Gregory Hall 810 S Wright M/C 466 Urbana, IL 61801
Professor Emeritus

Additional Campus Affiliations

Affiliated Faculty - Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Center for Global Studies
Affiliated Faculty, Professor Emeritus - East Asian Languages and Cultures

Highlighted Publications

EDITED BOOKS

Ezu-gaku nyūmon (Introduction to Cartology), University of Tokyo Press, 2011.

Toby, Ronald P, and Akira Hayami. Emergence of Economic Society in Japan, 1600-1859. Oxford University Press, 2004.

Toby, Ronald P, and Martin Collcutt. Japan and Its Worlds: Marius Jansen and the Internationalization of Japanese Histor. I-House Press, 2004.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

"Mapping New Meisho: The Kyoto ‘Ear Mound’ in Early Modern Representation (Kinsei no miyako meisho: Hōkōji to Mimizuka)." Rekishigaku kenkyū, no. 841, 2008, p. 1-12.

"Kusumi Morikage hitsu Chōsenjin gyōretsu-zu byōbu ni tsuite (On Kusumi Morikage's "Korean Parade Screens"." Kokka, vol. 109, no. 5, 2003, p. 5-16.

BOOKS

Sakoku to iu gaikō (The politics of ‘seclusion’). Tokyo: Shogakukan, 2008.

Toby, Ronald P, Shosuke Murai, Shin Satō, and Mitsuo Yoshida. Nik-Kan-Chū no kōryū: hito, mono, bunka (Japanese-Korean-Chinese Exchange: People, Things & Culture). Compiled by Mitsuo Yoshida, Yamakawa Shuppansha, 2004.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

Toby, Ronald P. "The Originality of the ‘Copy’: Mimesis and Subversion in Hanegawa Tōei’s Chōsenjin ukie." Cultures of Copying in Japan, Routledge, 2007, p. 113-155.

"Foreign Texts/Native Readings: Matsushita Kenrin (1637-1703) & the Challenge of Chinese/ Korean Histories." Japan and Its Worlds, I-House Press, 2007, p. 113-155.