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Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
Karen Laura Thornber
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Description for Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature
Hardback. By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan's military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia. This book explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japan's cultural authority. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 550 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1F; 2GJ; DSB; HBJF; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1048.
By the turn of the twentieth century, Japan’s military and economic successes made it the dominant power in East Asia, drawing hundreds of thousands of Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese students to the metropole and sending thousands of Japanese to other parts of East Asia. The constant movement of peoples, ideas, and texts in the Japanese empire created numerous literary contact nebulae, fluid spaces of diminished hierarchies where writers grapple with and transculturate one another’s creative output.
Drawing extensively on vernacular sources in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book analyzes the most active of these contact nebulae: semicolonial Chinese, occupied ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
Series
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
Number of Pages
550
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674036253
SKU
V9780674036253
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About Karen Laura Thornber
Karen Laura Thornber is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
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