Strange Tales from EDO: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan Fleming William D.
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…
Specifikacia Strange Tales from EDO: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan Fleming William D.
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