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Borders of Chinese Civilization - Geography and History at Empire’s End (Hardcover, New)
Series: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
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D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the
changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing,
examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors.
Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and
1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres
the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and
the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of
“brushtalk,” in which Chinese scholars communicated with the
Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the
Chinese viewed the communication of their language and its dominant
modes—history and poetry—as the textual and cultural basis of a
shared civilization between the two societies. With Japan’s
decision in the 1870s to modernize and westernize, China’s
relationship with Japan underwent a crucial change—one that
resulted in its decisive separation from Chinese civilization and,
according to Howland, a destabilization of China’s worldview. His
examination of the ways in which Chinese perceptions of Japan
altered in the 1880s reveals the crucial choice faced by the
Chinese of whether to interact with Japan as “kin,” based on
geographical proximity and the existence of common cultural
threads, or as a “barbarian,” an alien force molded by European
influence. By probing China’s poetic and expository modes of
portraying Japan, Borders of Chinese Civilization exposes the
changing world of the nineteenth century and China’s
comprehension of it. This broadly appealing work will engage
scholars in the fields of Asian studies, Chinese literature,
history, and geography, as well as those interested in theoretical
reflections on travel or modernism.
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Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society |
Release date: |
April 1996 |
Firstpublished: |
May 1996 |
Authors: |
Douglas Howland
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 31mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
352 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-1775-3 |
Categories: |
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Social sciences >
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Humanities >
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General
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LSN: |
0-8223-1775-3 |
Barcode: |
9780822317753 |
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