Japan's love-hate relationship with the West

著者

• 平川, 祐弘 ヒラカワ, スケヒロ

書誌事項

Japan's love-hate relationship with the West

Sukehiro Hirakawa

Global Oriental, 2005

注記

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Introductory chapters cover Japan's historic love-hate relationship with China, then an in-depth analysis of three themes: Japan's turn to the West; Japan's return to the East; from war to peace. The book explains why Japanese modern writers oscillate between East and West.

目次

• Preface
• Part I: Japan's Love-Hate Relationship with China
• 1-1 Chinese Culture and Japanese Identity: Traces of Bai Ju-yi in a Peripheral Country
• 1-2 National Poetics and National Identity
• 1-3 The Awakening of Asia
• Part II: Japan's Turn to the West
• 2-1 The Meaning of Dutch Studies in Tokugawa Japan
• 2-2 Japanese Experience Abroad
• 2-3 Teachers of 'Arts and Sciences': Foreigners in Meiji Government Employ
• 2-4 First Translations from Western Literature
• 2-5 Reaction against 'Slavish' Westernization
• 2-6 Rokumeikan: the Europeanization Fever in Comparative Perspective
• 2-7 Benjamin Franklin and Fukuzawa Yukichi: Two Autobiographies Compared
• Part III: Return to the East
• 3-1 Yearning for the West and Return to the East: Patterns of Japanese and Chinese Intellectuals
• 3-2 Uchimura Kanzo and America: Reflections on the Psychological Structure of Anti-Americanism
• 3-3 The Yellow Peril and the White Peril: The Views of Anatole France
• 3-4 Natsume So-seki and His Teacher James Murdoch: Their Opposite Views on the Modernization of Japan
• Part IV: From War to Peace
• 4-1 Signals of Peace Not Received: Premier Suzuki Kantaro's Efforts to End the Pacific War
• 4-2 R. H. Blyth and Hirohito's Denial of the 'Divine' Nature of the Japanese Emperor
• 4-3 Prisoners in Burma
• 4-4 The Image of Former Enemies in Takeyama Michio's Harp of Burma (1948)
• Part V: Attempt at Cross-Cultural Elucidation
• 5-1 Aesop's Fables and their Japanese Translations: An Attempt at Comparative Work Ethics
• 5-2 The Divine Comedy and the No Plays of Japan: An Attempt at Reciprocal Elucidation
• 5-3 Dante's Inferno from a Japanese Perspective
• 5-4 How to Go into Inferno in the Literatures of East and West: Brecht's Adaptations of the Japanese No Play Taniko
• 5-5 Arthur Waley's Aesthetics in Translating the No Play Hatsuyuki
• 5-6 Love in the West, Friendship in the East: Poetical Predilections as Perceived by Arthur Waley and Natsume Soseki
• Part VI: Japanese Writers between East and West
• 6-1 Mori Ogai's Ambivalent Relationship with his Mother as Evoked in his Later Historical Works
• 6-2 Intellectual Loneliness or Intellectual Companionship: Portraits of a Foreign Teacher by Soseki, E.V. Lucas and Lu Xun
• 6-3 The Poet-Sculptor Takamura Kotaro's Love-Hate Relationship with the West
• 6-4 Those Who Understand mono no aware and Those Who Do Not: Human Capacity to Be Affected by Things of Nature in Kawabata's The Sound of the Mountain and Hemon's Maria Chapdelaine
• 6-5 Changing Appreciations of Japanese Literature: Basil Hall Chamberlain versus Arthur Waley
• Postscript
• Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA7223612X
• ISBN:
  • 9781901903812
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Folkestone, Kent
• ページ数/冊数: xi, 557 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : DS881.96
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Japan -- Foreign relations -- Europe
  • LCSH : Europe -- Foreign relations -- Japan
  • LCSH : Japan -- Foreign relations -- China
  • LCSH : China -- Foreign relations -- Japan
  • LCSH : Japan -- Intellectual life -- 1868-
  • LCSH : Japan -- Civilization -- 1868-