The Japanese discovery of Chinese fiction the Water margin and the making of a national canon

"The classic vernacular Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan in the early seventeenth century, it became a ubiquitous source of inspiration for t...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hedberg, William C. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York Columbia University Press [2020]
Subjects:
Shui hu zhuan > Appreciation > Japan.
Shui hu zhuan
1260-1368
Japanese literature > Chinese influences.
Chinese literature > Yuan dynasty, 1260-1368 > History and criticism.
Littérature japonaise > Influence chinoise.
Littérature chinoise > 1260-1368 (Dynastie des Yuan) > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > Japanese.
Art appreciation
Chinese literature
Japanese literature > Chinese influences
Yuan Dynasty (China)
Japan
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : entering the margins : reading Shuihu zhuan as Japanese literature
  • Sinophilia, sinophobia, and vernacular philology in early modern Japan
  • Histories of reading and nonreading : Shuihu zhuan as text and touchstone in early modern Japan
  • Justifying the margins : nation, canon, and Chinese fiction in Meiji and Taishō Chinese-literature historiography (Shina bungakushi)
  • Civilization and its discontents : travel, translation, and armchair ethnography
  • Epilogue : a final view from the margins

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