Strange Tales From Edo - Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan

In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan's engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period, including large-scale analyses of the record of the circulation of Chinese texts in Japan. He also traces the hidden history of Pu Songling's Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio) in Japan.

About the author

William D. Fleming is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Summary

In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period, including large-scale analyses of the record of the circulation of Chinese texts in Japan. He also traces the hidden history of Pu Songling’s Liaozhai zhiyi (Strange Tales from Liaozhai Studio) in Japan.

Product details

• Authors: William D. Fleming, Fleming William D.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2023
• EAN: 9780674293809
• ISBN: 978-0-674-29380-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Japan, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, Translation & interpretation, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism, Translation and interpretation