SAGACIOUS MONKS AND BLOODTHIRSTY WARRIORS:
Chinese Views of Japan in the Ming-Qing Period
Joshua A. Fogel, ed.
Although
China and Japan have had virtually uninterrupted contact going back over many
centuries, the lion’s share of works addressing both China and Japan’s overseas
contacts—cultural and political—have concerned the West. Before the twentieth
century, however, Western contacts with Japan were infrequent at best.
Throughout the centuries before the twentieth, Chinese culture in the
form of books, art objects, religious items, and the like flowed into Japan in
great quantity. Within the scholarly community, some attention has focused on
Japan and the Japanese elite’s reception of the cultural flow and their
response to it. By contrast, little if anything has been written about how the
Chinese saw the Japanese. By addressing this glaring lacuna, the essays in this
volume make a unique contribution.
CONTENTS
Introduction:
Placing Japan in Late Imperial China / Joshua
Fogel
Ming to Early Qing:
The Evolution of Ming Dynasty Perceptions of the Japanese / Wang Yong;
Japan in the Late Ming: The View from Shanghai / Timothy Brook;
Chinese Understanding of
the Japanese Language / Joshua Fogel;
Views of and Policies Toward Japan in the Early Qing / Guo Yunjing
High Qing:
Wang Pang: Views of Japan by Chinese Who Traveled to Nagasaki in the Ming-Qing / Oba Osamu;
Qing Reactions to the Reimportation
of the Confucian Canon from Tokugawa Japan / Laura
Hess;
Qing Learning and Koshogaku in Tokugawa Japan / Benjamin Elman
Late Qing:
Late Qing Chinese Scholars in Japan: How They Lived and Whom They Knew / Wang Baoping;
A Masterful Chinese Study
of Japan from the Late Qing / Wang Xiaoqiu;
“Good Wives and Wise Mothers”: Meiji Japan and Feminine Modernity in Late-Qing
China / Joan Judge;
Chinese
Intellectuals’ View of Japan in the Late Qing / Zhou Qiqian
Joshua A. Fogel teaches East Asian history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The
founding editor of Sino-Japanese Studies,
his research interests involve the cultural interactions between China and
Japan. During 2001-2003 he was Mellon Visiting Professor in East Asian Studies
at the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
University.
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