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In describing the report, historian Isoda Michifumi highlights that it would have provided Japanese readers with a "global" awareness of the existence in the world of alternative modes of governance, social class, urban organization, etc., differing from those which were normative in Japan.
In describing the report, historian Isoda Michifumi highlights that it would have provided Japanese readers with a "global" awareness of the existence in the world of alternative modes of governance, social class, urban organization, etc., differing from those which were normative in Japan.
Yoshimune later dispatched scholars to [[Nagasaki]] to collect further information from Chinese merchants and others based there. The results of this roughly two hundred question investigation were compiled under the title ''Shinchō tanshi'' (‘Investigations of the Qing Court’) between [[1725]] to [[1732]].
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