Receptions of Greek and Roman antiquity in East Asia / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger, Xin Fan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Renger, Almut-Barbara, editor.

Fan, Xin (Historian), editor.

Series:

Metaforms ; Volume 13.

Studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Classical--Appreciation--East Asia.

Civilization, Classical.

Civilization, Classical--Influence.

East Asia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018.

System Details:

data file

Contents:

Intro; Contents; Foreword; John T. Hamilton; List of Figures and Tables; Note on Personal Names; Notes on Contributors; Receptions and Cross-Cultural Transfers: On Greco-Roman Antiquity in East Asia

An Introduction; Almut-Barbara Renger and Xin Fan; Part 1; Encountering Traditions: Early Exchanges and Transfers of Knowledge; Chapter 1; The Jesuit Mission to China and the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Culture in China and Korea; Andreas Müller-Lee; Chapter 2; Reading Classical Latin Authors in the Jesuit Mission in China: Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries; Noël Golvers; Chapter 3

History and Reception of Greek and Latin Studies in JapanIchiro Taida; Part 2; Receiving Texts: The Travel of Tropes and Literary Fusions; Chapter 4; Translating and Rewriting Western Classics in China (1920s-1930s): The Case of the Xueheng Journal; Jinyu Liu; Chapter 5; Toward a New Mode of Vernacular Chinese: A Study on Zhou Zuoren's Modern Translation of Theocritus' Id. 10; Lihua Zhang; Co-translated by Jiaming Xiu and Lihua Zhang; Chapter 6; St. Sebastian Reborn: Greco-Roman Ideals of the Body in Mishima Yukio's Postwar Writing; Ikuho Amano; Chapter 7

Retelling Medea in Postwar Japan: The Function of Ancient Greece in Two Literary Adaptations by Mishima Yukio and Kurahashi YumikoLuciana Cardi; Part 3; Negotiating Terms: The Discourse of Antiquity and Modernity; Chapter 8; An Adoring Gaze: The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan; Hiroshi Nara; Chapter 9; Imagining Classical Antiquity in Twentieth-Century China; Xin Fan; Chapter 10; Leo Strauss and the Rebirth of Classics in China; Xiaofeng Liu Translated by Guangchen Chen; Chapter 11; The Ancient Greeks in Modern China: History and Metamorphosis; Shadi Bartsch; Part 4

Pluralizing Legacies: Visual, Material, and Performing CulturesChapter 12; Cool Rome and Warm Japan: Thermae Romae and the Promotion of Japanese Everyday Culture; Sari Kawana; Chapter 13; Back to the Future: Reviving Classical Figures in Japanese Comics; Carla Scilabra; Chapter 14; Queen Hudijin: A Medea-like Chinese Woman in Guo Moruo's Historical Play The Peacock's Gallbladder; Tianshu Yu Translated by Haiying Liu; Chapter 15; Seoul as an Exhibition Space of Urban Daily Life: The Contemporary Korean Reception of Agamemnon

The Ghost Sonata (2005); Yuh-Jhung Hwang; Chapter 16

Politics, Culture, and Classical Architectural Elements in TaiwanChia-Lin Hsu; Part 5; Sharing Traditions: Western Classics in Contemporary East Asia; Chapter 17; Classical Studies in China; Yang Huang; Chapter 18; Retrospective and Prospects of Ancient Western History Studies in Korea: Awaiting the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Korean Society of Western History; Deogsu Kim; Chapter 19; A Brief Report on Classical Scholarship in Korea, Focusing on Literature; Jaewon Ahn; Chapter 20; The Influence of Roman Law in Korea; Byoung Jo Choe; Chapter 21

Western Classics at Chinese Universities

and Beyond: Some Subjective Observations

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ISBN:

9004370714

9789004370715

OCLC:

1043052291

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