Strange Tales from Edo : Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan / William D. Fleming.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fleming, William D., author.

Series:

Harvard East Asian monographs ; Volume 465.

Harvard East Asian Monograph Series ; Volume 465

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--Edo period, 1600-1868--History and criticism.

Japanese fiction.

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

Japanese literature.

Chinese imprints--Japan--History.

Chinese imprints.

Chinese literature--Appreciation--Japan--History.

Chinese literature.

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

Chinese literature--Adaptations.

Pu, Songling, 1640-1715. Liao zhai zhi yi.

Pu, Songling.

Pu, Songling, 1640-1715--Influence.

Morishima, Chūryō, 1754-1810?--Criticism and interpretation.

Morishima, Chūryō.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2023]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Strange Tales from Edo , William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600–1868). Large-scale analyses of the full historical and bibliographical record—the first of their kind—document in detail the wholesale importation of Chinese fiction, the market for imported books and domestic reprint editions, and the critical role of manuscript practices—the ascendance of print culture notwithstanding—in the circulation of Chinese texts among Japanese readers and writers. Bringing this big picture to life, Fleming also traces the journey of a text rarely mentioned in studies of early modern Japanese literature: Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio). An immediate favorite of readers on the continent, Liaozhai was long thought to have been virtually unknown in Japan until the modern period. Copies were imported in vanishingly small numbers, and the collection was never reprinted domestically. Yet beneath this surface of apparent neglect lies a rich hidden history of engagement and rewriting—hand-copying, annotation, criticism, translation, and adaptation—that opens up new perspectives on both the Chinese strange tale and its Japanese counterparts. See Less

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Author: William D. Fleming

Introduction / Author: William D. Fleming

Importing Chinese Fiction in the Edo Period / Author: William D. Fleming

Wakokubon: Chinese Books Printed in Japan / Author: William D. Fleming

Hidden Practices

Collectors, Borrowers, and Manuscript Culture in the Age of Woodblock Print / Author: William D. Fleming

Kidan: Strange Tales from Japan / Author: William D. Fleming

Taming the Strange

Anomalies and the Tokugawa Order / Author: William D. Fleming

Epilogue / Author: William D. Fleming

Character List / Author: William D. Fleming

Bibliography / Author: William D. Fleming

Index / Author: William D. Fleming

Harvard East Asian Monographs / Author: William D. Fleming.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68417-687-5

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684176878 DOI