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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on Romanization; Introduction: The China Factor in Tokugawa Culture; China as Role Model; China as "The Other"; China as a Set of Building Blocks; Beyond a Model and "The Other"; Part I: Naturalization of Chinese Legends; 1. Xu Fu as Chinese Migrant; Theories about Xu Fu before the Tokugawa Period; The Xu Fu Legend in the Tokugawa Period; Xu Fu as Transmitter of Chinese Culture; Xu Fu as Political Refugee; Xu Fu as "The Other"; Significance of the Xu Fu Legend; 2. Yang Guifei as Shinto Deity; The Legend of Yang Guifei in Tokugawa Japan |
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Yang Guifei as Political RefugeeYang Guifei as Shinto Deity; Yang Guifei in Tokugawa Thought; 3. Wu Taibo as Imperial Ancestor; Wu Taibo as Imperial Ancestor; Taibo as Chinese Sage; The Significance of the Taibo Debate; Part II. Appropriation of Confucian Classics; 4. The Mencius and Politics; Tokugawa Scholarship on the MENCIUS; Confucian Writings in the Tokugawa Period; The KŌ-MŌ YOWA in Tokugawa Mencian Scholarship; The Background of the KŌ-MŌ YOWA; National Polity in Japan and China; The Kingly Way versus the Hegemonic Way; The Way of Samurai and the Way of Imperial Loyalists |
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The Appropriation of Mencian Political Thought5. The Xiaojing and Ethics; Filial Son or Disloyal Subject; Filial Piety as the Primary Ethics; Limitations of Localization of Confucian Ethics; 6. The Yijing and Shinto; The yijing in Early kokugaku; Hirata Atsutane's Appropriation of the yijing; The Shintoization of the yijing after Atsutane; The yijing as a Building Block of Shinto; Part III. Redefinition of Historical Terms; 7. Names for China; Names for China in Tokugawa Writings; China as "The Other" for Japan; Japan as the Cultural Center; The Appropriation of Names |
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Behind the Names for China8. Bakufu and Shōgun; The Semantic Change of BAKUFU; Kogi and Kubō; Names for the Tokugawa BAKUFU; Names for the Tokugawa SHŌGUN; Rectification of Names; bakufu and SHŌGUN as Building Blocks; 9. Redefining Legitimacy; The Limitation of Chinese Concepts of Legitimacy; Japanese Interpretation of Heaven's Mandate; The Southern and Northern Courts Controversy; The Legitimacy of the Edo bakufu; The Making of Japanese Concepts of Legitimacy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"While current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) tends to see China as either a model or "the Other," Wai-ming Ng's pioneering and ambitious study offers a new perspective by suggesting that Chinese culture also functioned as a collection of "cultural building blocks" that were selectively introduced and then modified to fit into the Japanese tradition. Chinese terms and forms survived, but the substance and the spirit were made Japanese. This borrowing of Chinese terms and forms to express Japanese ideas and feelings could result in the same things having different meanings in China and Japan, and this process can be observed in the ways in which Tokugawa Japanese reinterpreted Chinese legends, Confucian classics, and historical terms. Ng breaks down the longstanding dichotomies between model and "the other," civilization and barbarism, as well as center and periphery that have been used to define Sino-Japanese cultural exchange. He argues that Japanese culture was by no means merely an extended version of Chinese culture, and Japan's uses and interpretations of Chinese elements were not simply deviations from the original teachings. By replacing a Sinocentric perspective with a cross-cultural one, Ng's study represents a step forward in the study of Tokugawa intellectual history"-- Provided by publisher. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Japan -- Civilization -- Chinese influences.
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Japan. |
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Civilization. |
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Japan -- Civilization -- 1600-1868.
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1600-1868 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ng, Wai-ming. Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan : Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2019 9781438473079 |
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9781438473086 |
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1438473087 |
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9781438473079 |
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1438473079 |
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