Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era

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Overview

The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has been done that brings these two histories together for the period prior to the twentieth century. This work does just that. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349626595
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/14/2000
Edition description:	1st ed. 2000
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Masuda Wataru (1903-1977) taught at Osaka Municipal University and Kansai University.

Joshua Fogel is with the Department of History at the University of California.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Masuda Wataru and the Study of Modern China	vii
1	The Wanguo gongfa and Medical Texts	1
2	Scientific Texts	6
3	The Zhihuan qimeng and Related Texts	11
4	Geography Texts	16
5	The Haiguo tuzhi and Shengwu ji by Wei Yuan	23
6	Yoshida Shoin and Wei Yuan	28
7	The Opium War and the 'Daoguang yangsao zhengfu ji'	34
8	The Ahen fusetsugaki	38
9	The Influence of the Opium War on Japan	43
10	The Yifei fanjing lu and the Ahen shimatsu	48
11	On Saito Chikudo's Ban shi and Other Writings	53
12	Sato Nobuhiro's Kairiku senbo roku and Son-Ka zateki ron	60
13	Strange Tales of the Opium War	68
14	The Kaigai shinwa by Mineta Fuko and Other Works	75
15	On the Shin Ei sen ki, the Japanese Edition of the Shengwu ji, and Nagai Kafu's Shitaya sowa	81
16	The Unnan shinwa and Novelizations of the Taiping Rebellion	89
17	The Small Sword Society and the Novel Man-Shin kiji	97
18	The Man-Shin kiji and the Etsuhi tairyaku	103
19	The Gaiho taihei ki and the Shinsetsu Min Shin kassen ki	109
20	Oshio Heihachiro and Legends from the Taiping Rebellion	116
21	Various and Sundry Images of Hong Xiuquan	126
22	The Dunbi suiwen lu and Various Other Writings about the Taiping Rebellion	136
23	The Kan'ei shosetsu and the Riben qishi ji	146
24	Details Concerning the Riben qishi ji	156
25	Satsuma, Japanese Pirates, and Ming China	167
26	Satsuma, Ming China, and the Invasion of Korea	176
27	Zheng Chenggong and Guoxingye (Kokusen'ya, Koxinga)	184
28	The Min Shin to ki	196
Appendix	Yamamoto Ken (Baigai)	206
	Notes	229
	Glossary	254
	Index	280

Editorial Reviews

Fogel's translation is quite reliable and readable, and he improves significantly on Masuda's original...this is a book that every scholarly collection, research library, and reference room should include. Journal of Asian Studies

...Joshua A. Fogel has accomplished a major feat in bringing these essays into English...

-American Historical Review

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