Borders of Chinese civilization : geography and history at Empire's end
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書誌事項
Borders of Chinese civilization : geography and history at Empire's end
(Asia-Pacific : culture, politics, and society)
Duke University Press, 1996
- : cloth
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全33件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index
内容説明・目次
- 巻冊次
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: pbk ISBN 9780822317722
内容説明
D. R. Howland explores China's representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan-the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of "brushtalk," in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the Chinese viewed the communication of their language and its dominant modes-history and poetry-as the textual and cultural basis of a shared civilization between the two societies.
With Japan's decision in the 1870s to modernize and westernize, China's relationship with Japan underwent a crucial change-one that resulted in its decisive separation from Chinese civilization and, according to Howland, a destabilization of China's worldview. His examination of the ways in which Chinese perceptions of Japan altered in the 1880s reveals the crucial choice faced by the Chinese of whether to interact with Japan as "kin," based on geographical proximity and the existence of common cultural threads, or as a "barbarian," an alien force molded by European influence.
By probing China's poetic and expository modes of portraying Japan, Borders of Chinese Civilization exposes the changing world of the nineteenth century and China's comprehension of it. This broadly appealing work will engage scholars in the fields of Asian studies, Chinese literature, history, and geography, as well as those interested in theoretical reflections on travel or modernism.
- 巻冊次
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: cloth ISBN 9780822317753
内容説明
D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of “brushtalk,” in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the Chinese viewed the communication of their language and its dominant modes—history and poetry—as the textual and cultural basis of a shared civilization between the two societies.
With Japan’s decision in the 1870s to modernize and westernize, China’s relationship with Japan underwent a crucial change—one that resulted in its decisive separation from Chinese civilization and, according to Howland, a destabilization of China’s worldview. His examination of the ways in which Chinese perceptions of Japan altered in the 1880s reveals the crucial choice faced by the Chinese of whether to interact with Japan as “kin,” based on geographical proximity and the existence of common cultural threads, or as a “barbarian,” an alien force molded by European influence.
By probing China’s poetic and expository modes of portraying Japan, Borders of Chinese Civilization exposes the changing world of the nineteenth century and China’s comprehension of it. This broadly appealing work will engage scholars in the fields of Asian studies, Chinese literature, history, and geography, as well as those interested in theoretical reflections on travel or modernism.
目次
Acknowledgments vii
Note ix
Introduction 1
I. Encountering Japan 9
1. Civilization from the Center: The Geomoral Context of Tributary Expectations 11
Civilization and Proximity 13
The Bounds of Diplomatic Protocol 15
Japan in the Qing Record 18
An Aside: The Aborted Legacy of the Ming 26
The Matter of International Treaties 28
The Decision to Grant Japan a Treaty (1870) 31
Japanese Incident/Dwarf Intrusion (1874) 35
2. Civilization as Universal Practice: The Context of Writing and Poetry 43
Brushtalking 43
The Written Code: Hanwen/Kanbun 45
The Play of the Code 48
Tong Wen: Shared Writing/Shared Civilization 54
Playing the Code: Occasional Poetry 57
Celebrating Tong Wen: Poetry and History 62
The Value of Civilization in Japan 65
II. Representing Japan 69
Prologue: Geographical Knowledge 71
3. Journeys to the East: The Geography of Historical Sites and Self in the Travelogue 80
Images of the East 81
Recovering History through Geographical Sites 86
Travel Accounts 92
4. The Historiographical Use of Poetry 108
The Poems on Divers Japanese Affairs 110
The Epistemological Basis of the Poetry-History Homology 119
Poetry and Geography 129
Evidential Research 135
5. The Utility of Objectification in the Geographic Treatise 157
The Decade of Geographic Treatises on Japan 158
The Local Treatise as a Model 164
Utility as Means and End 173
Strategies of Objectification 176
III. Representing Japan's Westernization 195
6. Negotiating Civilization and Westernization 197
Analogy and Containment 200
The Precedence of Learning before Action 201
Western Learning and Western Ways 203
Alternative Approaches to World Order 222
Afterword 242
Notes 251
Bibliography 303
Glossary 323
Index 333
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