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Author Masuda, Wataru, 1903-1977.
増田, 〓, (1903-1977)

Title Japan and China : mutual representations in the modern era / Masuda Wataru ; translated by Joshua A. Fogel
Published Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 298 pages) : illustrations
Contents Cover; Japan and China; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Masuda Wataru and the Study of Modern China; 1 The Wanguo gongfa and Medical Texts; 2 Scientific Texts; 3 The Zhihuan qimeng and Related Texts; 4 Geography Texts; 5 The Haiguo tuzhi and Shengwu ji by Wei Yuan; 6 Yoshida Shōin and Wei Yuan; 7 The Opium War and the 'Daoguang yangsao zhengfu ji'; 8 The Ahen fūsetsugaki; 9 The Inftuence of the Opium War on Japan; 10 The Yifei fanjing lu and the Ahen shimatsu; 11 On Saitō Chikudō's Ban shi and Other Writings
12 Satō Nobuhiro's Kairiku senbō roku and Son-Ka zateki ron13 Strange Tales of the Opium War; 14 The Kaigai shinwa by Mineta Fūkō and Other Works; 15 On the Shin Ei sen ki, the Japanese Edition of the Shengwu ji, and Nagai Kafū's Shitaya sōwa; 16 The Unnan shinwa and Novelizations of the Taiping Rebellion; 17 The Small Sword Society and the Novel Man-Shin kiji; 18 The Man-Shin kiji and the Etsuhi tairyaku; 19 The Gaihō taihei ki and the Shinsetsu Min Shin kassen ki; 20 Ōshio Heihachirō and Legends from the Taiping Rebellion; 21 Various and Sundry Images of Hong Xiuquan
22 The Dunbi suiwen lu and Various Other Writings about the Taiping Rebellion23 The Kan 'ei shōsetsu and the Riben qishi ji; 24 Details Concerning the Riben qishi ji; 25 Satsuma, Japanese Pirates, and Ming China; 26 Satsuma, Ming China, and the Invasion of Korea; 27 Zheng Chenggong and Guoxingye (Kokusen'ya, Koxinga); 28 The Min Shin tō ki; Appendix: Yamamoto Ken (Baigai); Notes; Glossary; Index
Summary 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 hav
Bibliography Includes bibliographical reference (pages 229-253) and index
Notes Translation from Japanese
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Subject HISTORY -- Asia -- Japan.
Intellectual life
International relations
Diplomatic relations
Kultur
Rezeption
Geschiedschrijving.
Beeldvorming.
SUBJECT Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1600-1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069532
Japan -- Foreign relations -- To 1868. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069419
Europe -- Relations -- East Asia
East Asia -- Relations -- Europe
China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024090
Subject China
East Asia
Europe
Japan
China
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136821097
1136821090