The Literature Of Travel In The Japanese Rediscovery Of China 1862 1945

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1996-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780804764780

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The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 by Anonim Pdf

This study of the writings of Japanese travelers to China from 1862 to 1945 serves both as a window onto changing Japanese images of China and as a vivid account of Sino-Japanese interactions over nearly a century. The year 1862 saw the lifting of the Tokugawa shogunate's ban of over two centuries on overseas contacts, and Japanese travelers were able to resume contact with China, which had begun some fifteen hundred years before. Through the centuries, China had exerted a profound influence on the development of Japanese culture, and what began as a wish to adopt the latest, most developed political and cultural achievements of China - assumed to be the most advanced country on earth -- later became an effort to understand the essence of Japan by defining its difference from China. This book is based upon some five hundred accounts of travel in China by Japanese, only a handful of which have previously been available in Western literature.

Author : Marlene J. Mayo,J. Thomas Rimer,H. Eleanor Kerkham
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824824334

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War, Occupation, and Creativity by Marlene J. Mayo,J. Thomas Rimer,H. Eleanor Kerkham Pdf

This collection of essays, based on international collaboration by scholars in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States, is the first systematic, interdisciplinary attempt to address the social, political, and spiritual significance of the modern arts both in Japan and its empire between 1920 and 1960. These forty years, punctuated by war, occupation, and reconstruction, were turbulent and brutal, but also important and even productive for the arts. The volume takes a trans-war (rather than an inter-war) approach, beginning with the cultural politics of painting, poetry, and fiction in Japanese-occupied Korea and Taiwan following World War I. The narrative continues with the impact of Japan's war in China and the Pacific War on major Japanese novelists, playwrights, painters, and filmmakers, before moving on to the final stage, Japan's defeat and initial recovery. During the Allied Occupation of Japan and in its aftermath, Japanese artists both confronted and dismissed the question of war responsibility by preserving, reviving, or reinventing the political cartoon, Kabuki drama, literature of the body, and the aesthetics of decadence. Contributors: Haruko Taya Cook, Kyoko Hirano, Youngna Kim (Kim Youngna), H. Eleanor Kerkham, David R. McCann, Marlene J. Mayo, J. Thomas Rimer, Mark H. Sandler, Rinjiro Sodei, Wang Hsui-hsiung (Wang Xiuxiong), Alan Wolfe, Angelina C. Yee.

Author : See Heng Teow
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0674472578

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Japan's Cultural Policy Toward China, 1918-1931 by See Heng Teow Pdf

Most scholarship on Japan's cultural policy toward modern China reflects the paradigm of cultural imperialism. In contrast, this study demonstrates that Japan was mindful of Chinese opinion and sought the cooperation of the Chinese government. China, however, actively sought to redirect this policy to serve its national interests and aspirations.

Author : Akiko Yosano
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231506663

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Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia by Akiko Yosano Pdf

Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, Seito (Blue stocking). In 1928 at a highpoint of Sino-Japanese tensions, Yosano was invited by the South Manchurian Railway Company to travel around areas with a prominent Japanese presence in China's northeast. This volume, translated for the first time into English, is her account of that journey. Though a portrait of China and the Chinese, the chronicle is most revealing as a portrait of modern Japanese representations of China—and as a study of Yosano herself.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004285309

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Between China and Japan by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

These essays and reviews by Joshua Fogel, written over the past 35 years, focus on the cultural and political interactions between China and Japan. The represent pioneering efforts to assess these two histories together.

Author : Roy Starrs
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004211308

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Rethinking Japanese Modernism by Roy Starrs Pdf

By adopting an open, multidisciplinary, and transnational approach, this book sheds new light both on the specific achievements and on the often-unexpected interrelationships of the writers, artists and thinkers who helped to define the Japanese version of modernism and modernity.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Signature Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131761251

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Late Qing China and Meiji Japan by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

Author : William C. Hedberg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231550260

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The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction by William C. Hedberg Pdf

The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for translations, adaptations, parodies, and illustrated woodblock prints. There is no work of Chinese fiction more important to both the development of early modern Japanese literature and the Japanese imagination of China than The Water Margin. In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction, William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of The Water Margin in a variety of early modern and modern Japanese contexts, from eighteenth-century Confucian scholarship and literary exegesis to early twentieth-century colonial ethnography. He examines the ways Japanese interest in Chinese texts contributed to new ideas about literary canons and national character. By constructing an account of Japanese literature through the lens of The Water Margin’s literary afterlives, Hedberg offers an alternative history of East Asian textual culture: one that focuses on the transregional dimensions of Japanese literary history and helps us rethink the definition and boundaries of Japanese literature itself.

Author : William O. Gardner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174270

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Advertising Tower by William O. Gardner Pdf

On a December morning in 1925, a newspaper journalist reported receiving 25 different handbills in an hour’s walk in downtown Tokyo, advertising everything from Western-style clothing and furniture to sweet shops, charity organizations, phonograph recordings, plays, and films. The activities of advertisers, and the new entertainment culture and patterns of consumption that they promoted, helped to define a new urban aesthetic emerging in the 1920s. This book examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the twentieth century. In particular, it explores the themes and formal strategies of the modernist literature that flourished in the 1920s, focusing on the work of Hagiwara Kyojiro (1899-1938) and Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). William Gardner shows how modernist works offer new constructions of individual subjectivity amid the social and technological changes that provided the ground for the appearance of "mass media." Hagiwara’s conception of the poem and poet as an electric-radio "advertising tower" provides an emblem for the aesthetic tensions and multiple discourses of technology, media, urbanism, commerce, and propaganda that were circulating through the urban environment at the time; while Hayashi’s work, with its references to popular songs, plays, and movies, suggests an understanding of "everyday life" as the interface between individual subjectivity and a highly mediated environment.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0857458892

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Traditions of East Asian Travel by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

Although the topic of travel and travel writing by Chinese and Japanese writers has recently begun to attract more interest among scholars in the West, it remains largely virgin terrain with vast tracts awaiting scholarly examination. This book offers insights into how East Asians traveled in the early modern and modern periods, what they looked for, what they felt comfortable finding, and the ways in which they wrote up their impressions of these experiences.

Author : Lu Yan
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0824827309

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Re-understanding Japan by Lu Yan Pdf

To many Chinese, the rise and expansion of Japanese power during the years between the two Sino-Japanese wars (1895–1945) presented a paradox: With its successful modernization, Japan became a model to be emulated; yet as the country’s imperial ambitions on the continent grew, it posed an ever-increasing threat. Drawing on an extraordinary array of source materials, Lu Yan shows that this attraction to and apprehension of Japan prompted the Chinese to engage in a variety of long-term relationships with the Japanese. Re-understanding Japan examines transnational and transcultural interactions between China and Japan during those five dramatic and tragic decades at the intimate level of personal lives and behavior. At the center of Lu’s inquiry are four diverse yet significant case studies: military strategist Jiang Baili, literary critic and essayist Zhou Zuoren, Guomindang leader Dai Jitao, and romantic poet turned Communist Guo Moruo. In their public and private lives, these influential Chinese formed lasting ties with Japan and the Japanese. While their writings reached the Chinese public through the print mass media and served to enhance popular understanding of Japan and its culture, their activities in political, cultural, and diplomatic affairs paralleledsignificant turns in Sino-Japanese relations. Based on archival documents, personal memoirs, correspondence, interviews, and contemporary literary works, Re-understanding Japan delineates diverse approaches in Chinese efforts to engage Japan in China’s modern reforms.

Author : James Boyd
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004212800

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Japanese-Mongolian Relations, 1873-1945 by James Boyd Pdf

This is the first in-depth examination of Japanese-Mongolian relations from the 19th to the mid-20th century. The study repositions Mongolia in Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese relations.

Author : Joshua A. Fogel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520283305

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Maiden Voyage by Joshua A. Fogel Pdf

Japanese from varied domains, as well as shogunal officials, Nagasaki merchants, and an assortment of deck hands, made the voyage along with a British crew, spending a total of ten weeks observing and interacting with the Chinese and with a handful of Westerners. Roughly a dozen Japanese narratives of the voyage were produced at the time, recounting personal impressions and experiences in Shanghai. The Japanese emissaries had the distinct advantage of being able to communicate with their Chinese hosts by means of the "brush conversation" (written exchanges in literary Chinese). For their part, the Chinese authorities also created a paper trail of reports and memorials concerning the Japanese visitors, which worked its way up and down the bureaucratic chain of command. This was the first official meeting of Chinese and Japanese in several centuries.

Author : Sushila Narsimhan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : China
ISBN : 9788174840172

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Japanese Perceptions of China in the Nineteenth Century by Sushila Narsimhan Pdf

Author : Charles Exley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004309500

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Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature by Charles Exley Pdf

In Satō Haruo and Modern Japanese Literature, Charles Exley examines Satō’s novels and short stories from the 1910 s through the 1930s, placing them in discursive and historical context.