 | The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon Subjects: Shui hu zhuan -- Appreciation -- Japan; Japanese literature -- Chinese influences; Chinese literature -- Yuan dynasty 1260–1368 -- History and criticism; In The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction , William C. Hedberg investigates the reception of The Water Margin in a variety of early modern and modern Japanese contexts, from eighteenth-century Confucian scholarship and literary exegesis to early twentieth-century colonial ethnography. William C. Hedberg is an assistant professor of Japanese literature at Arizona State University. |
