Borders of Chinese civilization : geography and history at Empire's end / D.R. Howland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howland, Douglas, 1955-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Asia-Pacific.

Asia-Pacific

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese--Japan--Ethnic identity.

Chinese.

Japan--Civilization--Chinese influences.

Japan.

Japan--Relations--China.

China--Relations--Japan.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction

I Encountering Japan

1. Civilization from the Center: The Geomoral Context of Tributary Expectations

2. Civilization as Universal Practice: The Context of Writing and Poetry

II Representing Japan

Prologue: Geographical Knowledge and Forms of Representation

3. Journeys to the East: The Geography of Historical Sites and Self in the Travelogue

4. The Historiographical Use of Poetry

5. The Utility of Objectification in the Geographic Treatise

III Representing Japan's Westernization

6. Negotiating Civilization and Westernization

Afterword.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Univ. of Chicago, 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-322) and index.

ISBN:

9786613062505

9781283062503

128306250X

9780822382034

0822382032

OCLC:

213455243