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This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the
modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at
Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events
in the other country. None of these works has received any
sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how
Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few
personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on
fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to
the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural
bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts
all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.
Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a
lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of
one of the epochal events of the nineteenth century.
Brings together the study of modern China and Japan for the period prior to the 20th century. The 29 chapters deal with Chinese or Japanese works written in response to events in the other country and give a view of how they saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed.
Chinese (mainland and Taiwan), European, Japanese, Canadian, and
North American scholars address a subject of increasing interest in
modern Chinese and world history: the emergence of a modern
citizenry. While much attention has focused to date on the rise of
the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the
important concomitant element of a politically active "citizenry"
and what that might mean in a Chinese context. After a detailed
introduction by the editors on this theme in Western and East Asian
theory and practice, each essay examines a thinker or group of
thinkers from the crucial transition period in modern China,
1890-1920, and assesses their views on how China might forge a
modern society with a participatory political citizenry.
As part of a worldwide movement, nations and multinational groups
are trying to reach closure regarding past atrocites and
inhumanites, including what happened in Nanking in 1937. The
contributors to this book show that these activites are a search
for the common causes of human atrocites.
Sino-Japanese Reflections offers ten richly detailed case studies
that examine various forms of cultural and literary interaction
between Japanese and Chinese intellectuals from the late Ming to
the early twentieth century. The authors consider efforts by early
modern scholars on each side of the Yellow Sea to understand the
language and culture of the other, to draw upon received texts and
forms, and to contribute to shared literary practices. Whereas
literary and cultural flow within the Sinosphere is sometimes
imagined to be an entirely unidirectional process of textual
dissemination from China to the periphery, the contributions to
this volume reveal a more complex picture: highlighting how
literary and cultural engagement was always an opportunity for
creative adaptation and negotiation. Examining materials such as
Chinese translations of Japanese vernacular poetry, Japanese
engagements with Chinese supernatural stories, adaptations of
Japanese historical tales into vernacular Chinese, Sinitic poetry
composed in Japan, and Japanese Sinology, the volume brings
together recent work by literary scholars and intellectual
historians of multiple generations, all of whom have a strong
comparative interest in Sino-Japanese studies.
Written by one of Japan' most popular modern authors, this is a
lively, readable, and immensely entertaining fictional portrayal of
one of the epochal events of the nineteenth century.
Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of
each other, and the information that helped to fuel those
perceptions. There are two sections: China in Japan, debating the
Asiatic Mode of Production and kyodotai; and Japan in China,
covering the Manchurian Railway.
Presents the perceptions that the Chinese and the Japanese have of
each other, and the information that helped to fuel those
perceptions. There are two sections: China in Japan, debating the
Asiatic Mode of Production and kyodotai; and Japan in China,
covering the Manchurian Railway.
Chinese Studies in History contains unabridged translations of
Chinese sources, primarily scholarly journals and collections of
articles published in book form. The aim of the journal is to
present the more important Chinese studies in this field in the
light of the interest of those who are professionally concerned
with it.
Spanning the century from the Taiping Rebellion through the
establishment of the People's Republic of China, this is the first
comprehensive history of women in modern China. Its scope is broad,
encompassing political, economic, military, and cultural history,
and drawing upon Chinese and Japanese sources untapped by Western
scholars. The book presents new information on a wide range of
topics: the impact of Western ideas on women, especially in
education; the importance of women in the labor force; the relative
independence enjoyed by some women textile workers; the struggle
against footbinding; the influence of anarchism; the participation
of a women's brigade in the Revolution of 1911; the role of women
in the May Fourth Movement; the differences between the more
assertive women of South China and the 'traditional' women of the
North in organizing for political action; the involvement of
peasant women in insurgency and anti-Japanese struggles in the
countryside; and the effects of the Marriage Law of 1950. The
author has contributed a new preface to this English edition, and
Joshua A. Fogel and Susan Mann have written an introduction that
places the book in the context of studies of Chinese women,
Japanese sinology, and women's history in general. The book has
extensive notes, a bibliography, and, as an appendix, a chronology
of the history of women in modern China.
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.
For many years it has been known that scholars of Chinese history
and culture must keep abreast of scholarship in Japan, but the
great majority have found that to be difficult. Japanese for
Sinologists is the first textbook dedicated to helping Sinologists
learn to read scholarly Japanese writing on China. It includes
essays by eminent scholars, vocabulary lists with romanizations,
English translations, grammar notes, and a wealth of general
information not easily available anywhere. The reader will be
introduced to a wide panoply of famed Sinologists and their writing
styles. The first chapters introduce some basic information on
dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other resources for research on
China in Japanese materials, including a list of names and terms
from Chinese political, historical, and cultural events. The
chapters cover a range of topics and time periods and highlight
authors, all well-known Japanese scholars, with an appendix of
English translations of all the articles. After completing this
book, the user will be able to begin his or her own reading in
Japanese Sinology without the extensive apparatus this volume
supplies.
China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue
throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and
language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus
used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices.
Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New
Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the
significance of "New Sinology" by restoring the role of
language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern
China emerged. Reading the modern as a careful and ongoing
conversation with the past renders the "new" in a different
perspective. This volume is a significant step toward a new
historical narrative of China’s modern history, one wherein
"ruptures" can exist in tandem with continuities. The collection
accentuates the deep connection between language and power—one
that spans well across China’s long past—and hence the immense
consequences of linguistic-related methodology to the comprehension
of power structures and identity in China. Each of the essays in
this volume tackles these issues, the methodological and the
thematic, from a different angle but they all share the Sinological
prism of analysis and the basic understanding that a much longer
timeframe is required to make sense of Chinese modernity. The
languages examined are diverse, including modern and classical
Chinese, as well as Manchu and Japanese. Taken together they bring
a spectrum of linguistic perspectives and hence a spectrum of power
relations and identities to the forefront. While the essays focus
on late Qing and early twentieth-century eras, they refer often to
earlier periods, which are necessary to making real sense of later
eras. The methodological and the thematic do not only converge, but
also generate a plea for fostering and expanding this approach in
current and future studies.
Spanning the century from the Taiping Rebellion through the
establishment of the People's Republic of China, this is the first
comprehensive history of women in modern China. Its scope is broad,
encompassing political, economic, military, and cultural history,
and drawing upon Chinese and Japanese sources untapped by Western
scholars. The book presents new information on a wide range of
topics: the impact of Western ideas on women, especially in
education; the importance of women in the labor force; the relative
independence enjoyed by some women textile workers; the struggle
against footbinding; the influence of anarchism; the participation
of a women's brigade in the Revolution of 1911; the role of women
in the May Fourth Movement; the differences between the more
assertive women of South China and the 'traditional' women of the
North in organizing for political action; the involvement of
peasant women in insurgency and anti-Japanese struggles in the
countryside; and the effects of the Marriage Law of 1950. The
author has contributed a new preface to this English edition, and
Joshua A. Fogel and Susan Mann have written an introduction that
places the book in the context of studies of Chinese women,
Japanese sinology, and women's history in general. The book has
extensive notes, a bibliography, and, as an appendix, a chronology
of the history of women in modern China.
Manchuria Under Japanese Dominion Shin'ichi Yamamuro. Translated by
Joshua A. Fogel "Long-awaited . . . well done . . . elegant . . .
timely."--"Journal of Japanese Studies" From 1932 until the end of
World War II, the Japanese established and maintained by bloody
rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of Manchuria. This
region was composed of three northern provinces in China; the
puppet ruler was the last Chinese Emperor, Pu Yi, and this rich
industrial region was clearly coveted and managed by the Japanese
as a critical element in their imperial dominion. Yamamuro
Shin'ichi's extraordinary book rereads this occupation under new
light. The author shows that right-wing Japanese military and
civilian groups thought of construction in this sparsely populated
region as an effort to build a paradise on earth, with roots deep
in Asian traditions. At the same time, Chinese and Korean
populations in the region were abused by the Japanese military, and
many Japanese were deliberately misinformed about what was being
done in their name. Yamamuro examines the policies and events
unfolding on the ground during this time. With close attention to
the Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans involved, and the links between
the military and the home islands, he offers his own overall
assessment of this distinctive instance of state-building. Making
use of numerous sources in Chinese and Japanese, from legal
documents and government decrees to memoirs and poetry, "Manchuria
Under Japanese Dominion" goes beyond rhetoric to provide a unique
assessment of the history of this period. Yamamuro Shin'ichi is
Professor of History and Politics at the Institute for Research in
the Humanities at Kyoto University. He is the author of numerous
books in Japanese, including "Questioning the Meaning of Modern
Japan" and "Representations of Mutual Understanding and
Misunderstanding Among Japan, China, and Korea." Joshua A. Fogel is
Professor of History at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. He is the author of many books, including "The Literature
of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China" and editor of "The
Teleolology of the Nation State: Japan and China," also available
from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Encounters with Asia
2006 344 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 ISBN 978-0-8122-3912-6 Cloth $59.95s
39.00 World Rights Asian Studies, History Short copy: From 1932
until the end of World War II, the Japanese established and
maintained by bloody rule a puppet regime in the Chinese region of
Manchuria. Yamamuro Shin'ichi's extraordinary book rereads this
occupation under new light.
Japan and China did not begin to emerge as unified political
entities until the nineteenth century. Yet scholars and politicians
persistently refer to "Japan" and "China" in discussions of earlier
periods, as if the modern nation-state had long been established in
these regions. Joshua Fogel here brings together essays by eight
renowned East Asian scholars to demonstrate why this oversight
distorts our historical analysis and understanding of both
countries. The nation-states of Japan and China developed much
later and, indeed, far less uniformly than usually conveyed in
popular myth and political culture. Moreover, the false depiction
of an earlier national identity not only alters the factual record;
it serves the contemporary engines of nationalist mythology and
propaganda. This interdisciplinary volume asks deceptively simple
questions: When did "Japan" and "China" become Japan and China?
When and why do inhabitants begin to define their identity and
interests nationally rather than locally? Identifying the role of
mitigating factors from disease and travel abroad to the subtleties
of political language and aesthetic sensibility, the answers
provided in these diverse and insightful essays are appropriately
complex. By setting aside Western notions of the nation-state, the
contributors approach each region on its own terms, while the
thematic organization of the book provides a unique lens through
which to view the challenges common to understanding both Japan and
China. This highly readable collection will be important to
scholars both inside and beyond the field of East Asian studies.
China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue
throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and
language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus
used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices.
Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New
Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the
significance of "New Sinology" by restoring the role of
language/philology in the research and understanding of how modern
China emerged. Reading the modern as a careful and ongoing
conversation with the past renders the "new" in a different
perspective. This volume is a significant step toward a new
historical narrative of China’s modern history, one wherein
"ruptures" can exist in tandem with continuities. The collection
accentuates the deep connection between language and power—one
that spans well across China’s long past—and hence the immense
consequences of linguistic-related methodology to the comprehension
of power structures and identity in China. Each of the essays in
this volume tackles these issues, the methodological and the
thematic, from a different angle but they all share the Sinological
prism of analysis and the basic understanding that a much longer
timeframe is required to make sense of Chinese modernity. The
languages examined are diverse, including modern and classical
Chinese, as well as Manchu and Japanese. Taken together they bring
a spectrum of linguistic perspectives and hence a spectrum of power
relations and identities to the forefront. While the essays focus
on late Qing and early twentieth-century eras, they refer often to
earlier periods, which are necessary to making real sense of later
eras. The methodological and the thematic do not only converge, but
also generate a plea for fostering and expanding this approach in
current and future studies.
For many years it has been known that scholars of Chinese history
and culture must keep abreast of scholarship in Japan, but the
great majority have found that to be difficult. Japanese for
Sinologists is the first textbook dedicated to helping Sinologists
learn to read scholarly Japanese writing on China. It includes
essays by eminent scholars, vocabulary lists with romanizations,
English translations, grammar notes, and a wealth of general
information not easily available anywhere. The reader will be
introduced to a wide panoply of famed Sinologists and their writing
styles. The first chapters introduce some basic information on
dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other resources for research on
China in Japanese materials, including a list of names and terms
from Chinese political, historical, and cultural events. The
chapters cover a range of topics and time periods and highlight
authors, all well-known Japanese scholars, with an appendix of
English translations of all the articles. After completing this
book, the user will be able to begin his or her own reading in
Japanese Sinology without the extensive apparatus this volume
supplies.
Before the Cultural Revolution, Ai Ssu-ch'i (1910-1966) was one of
Communist China's foremost Marxist philosophers, second only to
Chairman Mao himself. Ai was attracted to Marxism-Leninism as a
young student in China and Japan, and wrote numerous books and
articles seeking to explain the complexities of the philosophy in
language everyone could understand. His writings were enormously
popular during the 1930s and 1940s, and went through many printings
despite continuous harassment from Kuomintang censors. This volume
is the first full-length study of Ai Ssu-ch'i. In spite of his
popularity, Ai has largely been ignored in recent histories of the
Chinese Communist movement, because his importance lies in his
function as a popularizer rather than as an original thinker.
However, it can be shown that Mao and other leaders of the movement
were influenced by him, and his writings and translations certainly
helped to attract many young Chinese intellectuals to the Communist
cause. The recent flood of reminiscence literature in China has
reserved a special place of prominence for Ai Ssu-ch'i. This is not
only because he was so admired by Mao, but also because he devoted
his life so enthusiastically and wholeheartedly to the Party.
Joshua Fogel traces the pattern of this devotion via Ai's crucial
role in spreading Marxist-Leninist thought among Chinese
intellectuals.
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