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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan
    sub title: legends, classics, and historical terms
  title info:
    title: Dechuan Riben de Zhongguo xiang xiang. English
  name:
    name part: Ng, Wai-ming
    name part: 1962-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxvi, 262 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: The China factor in Tokugawa culture -- Xu Fu as Chinese migrant -- Yang Guifei as Shinto deity -- Wu Taibo as Imperial ancestor -- The Mencius and politics -- The Xiaojing and ethics -- The Yijing and Shinto -- Names for china -- Bakufu and Shogun -- Redefining legitimacy.
  note: Wai-ming Ng.
  note: Translation with substantial revisions of: Dechuan Riben de Zhongguo xiang xiang.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ja---
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Civilization
    topic: Chinese influences
  subject:
    geographic: Japan
    topic: Civilization
    temporal: 1600-1868
  classification: DS821.5.C5 N4 2019
  classification: 952/.025
  identifier: 9781438473079
  identifier: 1438473079
  identifier: 2018015531
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180810
    record change date: 20190718162634.0
    record identifier: in00004053109