The Fracture of Meaning : : Japan's Synthesis of China from the Eighth through the Eighteenth Centuries / / David Pollack.

• VerfasserIn: Pollack, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 5152
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 p.)

From the beginning of its recorded history until the opening to the West in the last century, Japan was caught between a love for and a rejection of Chinese civilization. David Pollack argues that the dialectical relationship between the two countries figured more importantly in the Japanese sense of identity and signification than any particular borrowed Chinese cultural materials.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One. Script and Scripture: The Kojiki and the Problem of Writing -- Chapter Two. The Informing Image: “China” in The Tale of Genji -- Chapter Three. “A Bridge Across the Mountains”: Chinese and the Aesthetics of the Shinkokinshu -- Chapter Four. “Chineseness” and “Japaneseness” in Early Medieval Zen: Kokan Shiren and Musō Soseki -- Chapter Five. Wakan and the Development of Renga Theory in the Late Fourteenth Century: Gido Shushin and Nijo Yoshimoto -- Chapter Six. Wakan in Literary Theory in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries: Zeami, Shōtetsu, Shinkei and Sōgi -- Chapter Seven. The Intellectual Contexts of Tokugawa Aesthetics: Itō Jinsai, Ogyū Sorai, and Genroku Culture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index