D. R. Howland explores China s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan the travel diary, poetry, and the geographical treatise. In his discussion of the practice of brushtalk, in which Chinese scholars communicated with the Japanese by exchanging ideographs, Howland further shows how the Chinese viewed the...
D. R. Howland explores China s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural a...
