Japan and China : Mutual Representations in the Modern Era

by Wataru, Masuda; Fogel, Joshua

• ISBN13: 9780312228408
• ISBN10: 0312228406
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-14
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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