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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.
Synopsis
Masuda (1903-77) was a Japanese scholar intensely engaged with translating Chinese literature into Japanese. Fogel (history, U. of California-Santa Barbara) here translates 28 essays he serialized in the journal Shohyo from 1972 to 1977 synthesizing his life's work by demonstrating Chinese and Japanese representations of events during the modern period before the 20th century. The collection was first published as Seigaku tozen to Chugoku jijo, 'zassho' sakki (The Eastern Movement of Western Learning and Conditions in China: Notes on Various Books) by Iwanami shoten, Tokyo, in 1979. Names and titles are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR