Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature

by Atsuko Sakaki

Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese writers and readers revised--or in many cases devised--rhetoric to convey "Chineseness" and how this practice contributed to shaping a national Japanese identity.

The volume begins by examining how Japanese travelers in China, and Chinese travelers in Japan, are portrayed in early literary works. An increasing awareness of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829182
• ISBN13: 9780824829186
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"