著者

黄 逸

出版者

関西大学東西学術研究所

雑誌

関西大学東西学術研究所紀要 = Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies, Kansai University (ISSN:02878151)

巻号頁・発行日

no.53, pp.121-138, 2020-04

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The embassy of the Chinese Empire under the direction of Mr.Anson Burlingame, the former U.S. Minister to Beijing (1862-1867), visited the United States of America in 1868. Four years later in 1872, the Japanese Imperial Minister Tomomi Iwakura led his embassy to America, too. As the first official Mission from China and Japan respectively, they received warm attention from the American newspapers. The media's reports and comments on the two embassies were generally full of goodwill, reflecting the kind of special amicable relationship between the post-Civil War United States who was engaging in the Reconstruction and its remote partners who were promoting modern reforms in East Asia after their respective civil wars. This paper intends to examine the two questions : why the U.S. newspapers around 1870 made such favorable reports, and what were the expectations of the reporters on the future U.S.-China and U.S.-Japan relations.