“Interrogating the Granny-Medium”: Chinese Communist Propaganda against Superstition in the late 1940s

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Editors’ Preface VII
3. Contents IX
4. Contributors XIII
5. Joshua Fogel’s Contribution to the Field of Sino-Japanese Studies 1
6. I Historiography
7. Between Private and Imperial: Toward a New Understanding of Qing Science, Ritual, and Statecraft 9
8. Naitō Konan’s Ambivalence toward Western-style Modernity: With an Overview of Recent Naitō Studies at Kansai University 19
9. Scholarship and Nationalism at a Time of War: Chinese Historian Jin Yufu’s Relationship with Three Japanese Sinologists in the Manchukuo Years 37
10. Historiographies of Illicit Drugs of China and Japan: Past Paths and Present Prospects 51
11. II Sino-Japanese Encounters
12. Koga Tōan’s Suppositions on Naval Defense and the Opium War Debate in Japan 67
13. Fukuzawa Yukichi on Women: Datsu-A Liberation, Prostitution, Eugenics 91
14. Manchu-philia in Edo-Period Japan, Or, Preliminary Notes Toward Understanding the Ming-Qing Transition as a Japanese Civil War 107
15. Japan and the Forbidden City, Beijing 1900–1940 121
16. III Law and Justice
17. An Informal Death Penalty at the Ba County Jail? Magisterial Discretion and Criminal Procedure at the Grassroots in Qing Dynasty China 139
18. In Neither Defeat nor Victory: The Complexity of Justice in Postwar East Asia 157
19. Disinterested History Versus the Twentieth Century 173
20. IV Politics
21. Provincial Patriotism Revisited: The Self-Government Movement in Hubei, 1920–1921 185
22. Living as a Cog in the Party Organization: A Revolutionary Way of Life in 1940s China 201
23. Translating and Assessing Mao’s Yan’an Writings (1942–1945): Reflections on Volume VIII of Mao’s Road to Power 213
24. “Interrogating the Granny-Medium”: Chinese Communist Propaganda against Superstition in the late 1940s 227
25. V Literature
26. Nagasaki, 1804–1805: An Edo Writer Experiences the World 245
27. Visible Rhymes, Inaudible Echoes: Script and Sound in the Sinitic Poetry of Modern Japan 259
28. The Sinological Erudition of the Japanese Hollandologists: “Dutch” Texts Seen through a “Chinese” Lens 277
29. Hesitation Prefigured: On Certain Implications of Lu Xun’s “Toward a Refutation of Malevolent Voices” 295
30. VI Art
31. Reflections of China and Foreign Encounters in Japanese Stage Art 313
32. From Commercialism to Cultural Politics: Revitalizations of Xiqing Antiquities from the Late Qing to the Republican Era 329
33. Exotic Soundscapes: China’s Cultural Revolution Resonating in Films of a Global 68 347
34. VII Translation
35. When the List Is the Message: Catalogues of Translated Books in Late Qing China 373
36. The Weary Atmosphere of Unemployed Beijing: Translating the Experience of Downward Mobility into the Psy-Disciplines in 1930s China 393
37. Mining Language and Scripting Exchanges: Sino-Japanese Encounters in a Manchurian Colliery 407
38. On Untranslatables in Xue Yiwei 417
39. VIII Appendix
40. List of Publications 433
41. Index 457