Chapter Three. Justifying the Margins: Nation, Canon, and Chinese Fiction in Meiji and Taishō Chinese-Literature Historiography (Shina bungakushi)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. NOTE ON FORMATTING xi
5. Introduction. Entering the Margins–Reading Shuihu zhuan as Japanese Literature 1
6. Chapter One. Sinophilia, Sinophobia, and Vernacular Philology in Early Modern Japan 25
7. Chapter Two. Histories of Reading and Nonreading: Shuihu zhuan as Text and Touchstone in Early Modern Japan 54
8. Chapter Three. Justifying the Margins: Nation, Canon, and Chinese Fiction in Meiji and Taishō Chinese-Literature Historiography (Shina bungakushi) 95
9. Chapter Four. Civilization and Its Discontents: Travel, Translation, and Armchair Ethnography 145
10. Epilogue. A Final View from the Margins 178
11. LIST OF TITLES, NAMES, AND SELECTED KEY TERMS 183
12. NOTES 193
13. BIBLIOGRAPHY 217
14. INDEX 235