Beatrice Bodart-Bailey (born 1942WorldCat (date unknown). Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. Retrieved from http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/person/data/2632104239.) is a

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academic, author, and

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. She was named professor of economics at

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, becoming "the first female and first non-Japanese person actually appointed by the Ministry of Education".Kenrick, Vivienne (2006-06-24). "Personality Profile: Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey". ''Japan Times'' (Tokyo), 24 June 2006. Retrieved on 2011-05-14 from http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20060624vk.html.

Biography

Her early education was in German and British schools. She earned a BA at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

(ANU). Her master's and doctorate degrees were awarded at the

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(RSPAS) at ANU in Canberra. Bodart-Bailey's MA thesis investigated "The Political Significance of the Tea Master

Sen no Rikyū , also known simply as Rikyū, is considered the historical figure with the most profound influence on ''chanoyu,'' the Japanese "Way of Tea", particularly the tradition of '' wabi-cha''. He was also the first to emphasize several key aspects ...

(1522–1591)". Her 1980 Ph.D. thesis examined "

Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period. He was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate and a favourite of the fifth shōgun, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. His second concubine was Ogimachi Machiko, a writer and scholar from the noble court who wrote ...

(1658-1714)".Asiatic Society of Japan
Beatrice Bodart-Bailey
retrieved 2011-05-14 Bodart-Bailey's marriage to an Australian diplomat caused Bodart-Bailey to follow him as his career developed, including postings in Bangkok, Thailand, and Ottawa, Canada. In 1982–1986, Bodart-Bailey was a visiting professor at

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, teaching Japanese history. She returned to ANU for post-graduate studies. Between 1986 and 1995, Bodart-Bailey was granted various research fellowships at ANU. In 1989–1990, Bodart-Bailey was awarded a Japan Foundation Fellow at the Institute of Social Science,

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. She has been a professor in the

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, and at

. In 1991, Bodart-Bailey became professor of Japanese history at Otsuma Women's University, where she was a founding member of the Department of Comparative Culture.

Selected works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Beatrice Bodart Bailey,

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encompasses roughly 30+ works in 30+ publications in 2 languages and 170+ library holdings. WorldCat Identities

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/ref> * ''Tea and Counsel, the Political Role of Sen Rikyū'' (1977) * ''Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu: a Reappraisal'' (1980) * ''Kaempfer Restored'' (1988) * ''Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646-1709): a Weberian analysis'' (1989) * ''A case of political and economic expropriation : the monetary reform of the fifth Tokugawa shogun'' (1989) * ''Engelbart Kämpfer'' (1990) * (1999) * ''The Most Magnificent Monastery and Other Famous Sights: the Japanese Paintings of Engelbert Kaempfer'' (1992) * ''The Persecution of Confucianism in Early Tokugawa Japan'' (1993) * (1994) * ''The Furthest Goal: Engelbert Kaempfer's Encounter with Tokugawa Japan'' (1995) * ''Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed'' (1999) * ''The Dog Shogun: the Personality and Policies of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi'' (2006) * (2009)

References

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