Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature

Atsuko Sakaki

Published by University of Hawaii Press 2005

Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature

Atsuko Sakaki

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824840648

Overview
Contents

About this book

Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese writers and readers revised—or in many cases devised—rhetoric to convey "Chineseness" and how this practice contributed to shaping a national Japanese identity.

The volume begins by examining how Japanese travelers in China, and Chinese travelers in Japan, are portrayed in early literary works. An increasing awareness of the diversity of Chinese culture forms a premise for the next chapter, which looks at Japan’s objectification of the Chinese and their works of art from the eighteenth century onward. Chapter 3 examines gender as a factor in the formation and transformation of the Sino-Japanese dyad. Sakaki then continues with an investigation of early modern and modern Japanese representations of intellectuals who were marginalized for their insistence on the value of the classical Chinese canon and literary Chinese. The work concludes with an overview of writing in Chinese by early Meiji writers and the presence of Chinese in the work of modern writer Nakamura Shin’ichiro. A final summary of the book’s major themes makes use of several stories by Tanizaki Jun’ichiro.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. Site Unseen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Chapter 2. From the Edifying to the Edible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Chapter 3. Sliding Doors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Chapter 4. The Transgressive Canon? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Coda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
About the Author Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270

Language: English
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280

eBook

Published: November 30, 2005
ISBN: 9780824840648