{"product_id":"the-japanese-discovery-of-chinese-fiction-9780231193344","title":"The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of \u003ci\u003eThe Water Margin\u003c\/i\u003e in a variety of early modern and modern Japanese contexts, from eighteenth-century Confucian scholarship and literary exegesis to early twentieth-century colonial ethnography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeticulously researched and written with clarity and wit, this is literary historiography at its best and most illuminating. . . Essential. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is a first-rate work of scholarship that makes innovative and important contributions to the field of East Asian studies by crossing geographical borders between Japan and China, temporal borders between the Tokugawa and Meiji eras, and disciplinary borders between literature and history. Hedberg deserves high marks for navigating those conceptual margins as deftly as he interprets the margins of \u003ci\u003eShuihu zhuan\u003c\/i\u003e. -- Erik Esselstrom, University of Vermont * Journal of Japanese Studies *\u003cbr\u003eConcise, thoughtfully structured, and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare books that opens up a bracingly new perspective on a well established field of study. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the literary history of Japan from the seventeenth century into the first decades of the twentieth, or in rediscovering “the literary history of Japan” itself as a concept. -- Michael Emmerich, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this erudite and sophisticated account of the Japanese appropriation of \u003ci\u003eThe Water Margin\u003c\/i\u003e, Hedberg probes a series of compelling examples and raises important questions about the nature of texts, commentaries, and literary history. This excellent work embraces the marginal as a powerful hermeneutical tool to destabilize received views. -- Laura Moretti, author of \u003ci\u003eRecasting the Past: An Early Modern\u003c\/i\u003e Tales of Ise \u003ci\u003efor Children\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e manages to be scholarly, witty, engaging, and personable all at the same time—a rare combination for a subject that is so dense and requires such intimate knowledge of a premodern literary text and the complex scholarly debates that surrounded it. -- Pieter Keulemans, author of \u003ci\u003eSound Rising from the Paper: Nineteenth-Century Martial Arts Fiction and the Chinese Acoustic Imagination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam C. Hedberg argues convincingly for \u003ci\u003eThe Water Margin\u003c\/i\u003e’s centrality to early modern and modern Japanese and Chinese literature. And like its subject, \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e moves across national, linguistic, temporal, and generic boundaries with energy and eloquence. -- Glynne Walley, author of \u003ci\u003eGood Dogs: Edification, Entertainment, and Kyokutei Bakin's\u003c\/i\u003e Nansō Satomi hakkenden\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable in its breadth, \u003ci\u003eThe Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates how Japanese encounters with successive renditions of \u003ci\u003eThe Water Margin\u003c\/i\u003e over more than three centuries served to inspire radical rethinking about ‘Chineseness’ and ‘Japaneseness’ across cultural, literary, and political registers. Hedberg especially handles the textual and linguistic complexities with expert skill. -- Paul Gordon Schalow, author of \u003ci\u003eA Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHedberg’s book stands out as a model of historically-informed transregional research that... participants in any type of humanities research can only hope to emulate. * Japan Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNote on Formatting\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Entering the Margins—Reading \u003ci\u003eShuihu zhuan\u003c\/i\u003e as Japanese Literature\u003cbr\u003e1. Sinophilia, Sinophobia, and Vernacular Philology in Early Modern Japan\u003cbr\u003e2. Histories of Reading and Nonreading: \u003ci\u003eShuihu zhuan\u003c\/i\u003e as Text and Touchstone in Early Modern Japan\u003cbr\u003e3. Justifying the Margins: Nation, Canon, and Chinese Fiction in Meiji and Taishō Chinese-Literature Historiography (\u003ci\u003eShina bungakushi\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e4. Civilization and Its Discontents: Travel, Translation, and Armchair Ethnography\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: A Final View from the Margins\u003cbr\u003eList of Titles, Names, and Selected Key Terms\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400343101783,"sku":"9780231193344","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231193344.jpg?v=1730470442","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-japanese-discovery-of-chinese-fiction-9780231193344","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}