Transpatial modernity : Chinese cultural encounters with Russia via Japan (1880-1930) / Xiaolu Ma.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ma, Xiaolu, 1984- author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; 471.

Harvard East Asian Monograph series ; 471

Language:

Chinese

English

Japanese

Russian

Subjects (All):

Chinese literature--Russian influences--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature--Japanese influences--History and criticism.

Japanese literature--Russian influences--History and criticism.

Japanese literature.

Indirect translation--China--History--20th century.

Indirect translation.

Cultural fusion--China--History--20th century.

Cultural fusion.

Russian literature--Translations into Chinese--History and criticism.

Russian literature.

Russian literature--Translations into Japanese--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xii, 338 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, 2024.

Language Note:

in English with excerpts in Chinese, Japanese, or Russian.

Summary:

"Transpatial Modernity offers the first in-depth account of the triangular relationship among Chinese, Japanese, and Russian literature and culture in the modern era. Drawing on primary sources of all three languages among others, Xiaolu Ma reveals how Chinese writers translated and appropriated Russian cultural tropes through the intermediary of Japanese letters in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To trace the global journey of literature and ideas in the modern era, Ma maps out four case studies involving leading cultural figures including Leo Tolstoy, Futabatei Shimei, and Lu Xun. Together, these case studies demonstrate the central role of relay transculturation-cultural exchange among at least three cultures, one of which serves primarily as an intermediary-as the key to understanding East Asian modernity. Not limited to a dyadic relationship between source and target culture, Transpatial Modernity explores the implications of cultural brokerage within complex transculturation processes, thus establishing the value of a new transpatial framework for understanding literary and cultural exchange in local, regional and global contexts."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mobility and Mediality: Russo-Japanese-Sino Relay Transculturation

Repackaged Affection: The Looped Transculturation of the Discourse of Sentiment

Respatializing Revolution: The Divergent Transfiguration of Russian Nihilists

Humanity or Individuality: The Global Transculturation of Tolstoy's Humanism

Hybridization and Transmutation: Parallel Transcultural Routes in Lu Xun's Language Reform.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674295834

0674295838

OCLC:

1396061340