Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan Legends Classics and by Wai-ming Ng PAPERBACK
State University of New York Press
Imagining China in Tokugawa JapanLegends, Classics, and Historical Terms\nAuthor(s): Wai-ming Ng\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: State University of New York Press, United States\nImprint: State University of New York Press\nISBN-13: 9781438473062, 978-1438473062\nSynopsis\nPioneering study of the localization of Chinese culture in early modern Japan, using legends, classics, and historical terms as case studies.\n\nWhile current scholarship on Tokugawa Japan [tel] 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 m.
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