Sino-Japanese Transculturation: Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the Pacific War

265 Pages·2011·1.818 MB·English

by  Richard King, Cody Poulton, Katsuhiko Endo

Sino-Japanese Transculturation

Sino-Japanese Transculturation
From the Late Nineteenth Century to the End of the
Pacific War
Edited by Richard King, Cody Poulton and Katsuhiko Endo
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Sino-Japanese transculturation : from the late nineteenth century to the end of the Pacific war / edited by Richard King, Cody
Poulton, and Katsuhiko Endo.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7391-7150-9 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-7391-7151-6 (electronic)
1. China—Foreign relations—Japan. 2. Japan—Foreign relations—China. 3. China—History—19th century. 4. China—Politics
and government—1937-1945. 5. Japan—History—19th century. 6. Japan—Politics and government—1926-1945. I. King,
Richard, 1951- II. Poulton, Cody. III. Endo, Katsuhiko, 1967-
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Contents
Preface
Introduction
Richard King and Cody Poulton
I: A Shared Heritage
Straddling the Tradition-Modernity Divide: Huang Zunxian (1848–1905) and His Poems
1
on Miscellaneous Subjects from Japan
Richard John Lynn
Waves from Opposing Shores: Exchanges in a Classical Language in the Age of
2
Nationalism
Atsuko Sakaki
Pan-Asian Romantic Nationalism: Revolutionary, Literati, and Popular Oral Tradition and
3
the Case of Miyazaki Tōten
Faye Yuan Kleeman
II: Confrontations with the Modern
On the Emergence of New Concepts in Late Qing China and Meiji Japan: The Case of
4
Religion
Viren Murthy
Collaborating, Acquiescing, Resisting: Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Transculturation
5
of Japanese Literature
Karen L. Thornber
6 Lu Jingruo and the Earliest Transportation of Western-Style Theatre from Japan to China
Siyuan Liu
III: The Culture of Occupation
7 Affective Politics and the Legend of Yamaguchi Yoshiko/Li Xianglan
Yiman Wang
8 Japan’s Orient in Song and Dance
Michael K. Bourdaghs
Manchukuo and the Creation of a New Multi-Ethnic Literature: Kawabata Yasunari’s
9
Promotion of “Manchurian” Culture, 1941–1942
Annika A. Culver
IV: Coming to Terms with History
Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The Dōsan Generation In Between
10
“Restoration” and “Defeat”
Leo Ching
11 The Road Taken, Then Retraced: Morimoto Kaoru’s A Woman’s Life and Japan in China
Cody Poulton
Re-acting an Actor’s Reaction to the Occupation: The Beijing Jingju Company’s Mei
12
Lanfang
Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak
“But Perhaps I Did Not Understand Enough”: Kazuo Ishiguro and Dreams of Republican
13
Shanghai
Richard King
Bibliography
Index
About the Authors
Preface
This book had its genesis in a workshop on “Japan-China Cultural Relations,” organized by the
volume editors, which took place in Victoria, British Columbia, in January 2008. The
workshop was funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada; we express our gratitude to SSHRC for its generous support. Workshop organization
was handled by the Centre for Asia Pacific Initiatives at the University of Victoria, most
notably Helen Lansdowne and Heidi Tyedmers, with the participation of the Centre’s research
chairs, Andrew Harding and Wu Guoguang; the Centre’s Stella Chan and Doug Thompson
provided continuing logistical and secretarial support. The editors acknowledge the
contributions made to the conference by Sonja Arntzen, Richard Calichman, Joshua Fogel, Guo
Ping, Robert Perrins, Norman Smith, and John Timothy Wixted. For his considerable expertise
and efficiency in preparing the final manuscript, we thank our editorial assistant Scott
Aalgaard.
Richard King, Cody Poulton, and Katsuhiko Mariano Endo