Marius B. Jansen

Marius Berthus Jansen (April 11, 1922 – December 10, 2000)Library of Congress Authority File: [http://errol.oclc.org/laf/n50-36717.html Jansen, Marius B.]; retrieved 2011-07-14 was an American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.Princeton University, Office of Communications, [https://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/00/q4/1213-jansen.htm "Professor Marius Berthus Jansen, scholar of Japanese history, dies,"] December 13, 2000.

Biography

Jansen was born in Vleuten in the Netherlands to Gerarda and Bartus Jansen, a florist who moved his family to Johnston, Rhode Island in the fall of 1923.[https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JNDT-V3Y Marius B. Jansen] on the passenger list of the Volendam, September 29, 1923, in New York Passenger Arrival Lists (Ellis Island), 1892–1924 Jansen grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton in 1943, having majored in European history of the Renaissance and Reformation. The same year, he began serving in the Army, studying Japanese and working in the Occupation of Japan.{{Cite journal |last=Lewis |first=Michael |title=Book Reviews: The Making of Modern Japan |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2668410 |journal=Monumenta Nipponica |volume=56 |pages=255 |doi=10.2307/2668410 |jstor=2668410 }} He completed his PhD in history at Harvard in 1950, studying Japan with Edwin O. Reischauer and China with John K. Fairbank. His dissertation dealt with the interactions of the two countries and was published as The Japanese and Sun Yat Sen in 1954.Saxon, Wolfgang. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/26/world/marius-b-jansen-78-scholar-of-japanese-history-and-culture.html "Marius B. Jansen, 78, Scholar Of Japanese History and Culture,"] New York Times. December 26, 2000

He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and president of the Association for Asian Studies in 1976. In 1999, Jansen was the first foreigner to be honored with the Distinguished Cultural Merit Award, given by the government of Japan.{{cite news |title=Obituary: Marius Jansen |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2000/12/14/national/obituary-marius-jansen/ |access-date=14 April 2019 |work=Japan Times |date=14 December 2000}}

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Marius Jansen, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 100+ works in 300+ publications in 12 languages and 13,900+ library holdings.[http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm WorldCat Identities] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230150412/http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/identities/default.htm |date=2010-12-30 }}: [http://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n50-36717 Jansen, Marius B.]

The Japanese and Sun Yat-sen (1954)
Sakamoto Ryōma and the Meiji Restoration (1961)
Japan and Communist China in the Next Decade (1964)
Changing Japanese Attitudes Toward Modernization (1965)
Studies in the institutional history of early modern Japan (1968) John Whitney Hall and Marius Jansen, eds. Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Japan and its World: Two Centuries of Change (1975)
[https://archive.org/details/japanchina00mari Japan and China: from War to Peace, 1894–1972] (1975)See Chalmers Johnson, "Reviewed Work: Japan and China: From War to Peace, 1894–1972 by Marius B. Jansen" The Journal of Japanese Studies (1975) 2#1 pp. 147–152 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/132043 online]
''Japan in Transition, from Tokugawa to Meiji (1986)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=11dbNDpaxOAC China in the Tokugawa World] (1992 {{ISBN|978-0-674-18476-3}}) [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674184763]; DeGruyter 2014) The 1988 Edwin O. Reischauer Lectures
Japanese Today: Change and Continuity (1995) Edwin O. Reischauer, Marius B. Jansen[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674471849 Japanese Today] Harvard University Press Books
The Making of Modern Japan (2000)[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674009912 The Making of Modern Japan] Harvard University Press Books