Receptions of Greek and Roman antiquity in East Asia / edited by Almut-Barbara Renger, Xin Fan.

• TeilnehmendeR: Renger, Almut-Barbara,; Fan, Xin (Historian),
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Metaforms 13.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (494 pages).

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global effort to examine the receptions of the Western Classical tradition in a cross-cultural context. The inclusion of modern East Asia in Classical reception studies not only allows scholars in the field to expand the scope of their scholarly inquiries but will also become a vital step toward transcending the meaning of Greco-Roman tradition into a common legacy for all of human society.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Foreword -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Note on Personal Names -- Receptions and Cross-Cultural Transfers: On Greco-Roman Antiquity in East Asia – An Introduction 1 / Almut-Barbara Renger and Xin Fan -- The Jesuit Mission to China and the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Culture in China and Korea 19 / Andreas Müller-Lee -- Reading Classical Latin Authors in the Jesuit Mission in China: Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries 50 / Noël Golvers -- History and Reception of Greek and Latin Studies in Japan 73 / Ichiro Taida -- Translating and Rewriting Western Classics in China (1920s–1930s): The Case of the Xueheng Journal 91 / Jinyu Liu -- Toward a New Mode of Vernacular Chinese: A Study on Zhou Zuoren’s Modern Translation of Theocritus’ Id. 10 112 / Lihua Zhang -- St. Sebastian Reborn: Greco-Roman Ideals of the Body in Mishima Yukio’s Postwar Writing 133 / Ikuho Amano -- Retelling Medea in Postwar Japan: The Function of Ancient Greece in Two Literary Adaptations by Mishima Yukio and Kurahashi Yumiko 154 / Luciana Cardi -- An Adoring Gaze: The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan 175 / Hiroshi Nara -- Imagining Classical Antiquity in Twentieth-Century China 202 / Xin Fan -- Leo Strauss and the Rebirth of Classics in China 219 / Xiaofeng Liu -- The Ancient Greeks in Modern China: History and Metamorphosis 237 / Shadi Bartsch -- Cool Rome and Warm Japan: Thermae Romae and the Promotion of Japanese Everyday Culture 259 / Sari Kawana -- Back to the Future: Reviving Classical Figures in Japanese Comics 287 / Carla Scilabra -- Queen Hudijin: A Medea-like Chinese Woman in Guo Moruo’s Historical Play The Peacock’s Gallbladder 310 / Tianshu Yu -- Seoul as an Exhibition Space of Urban Daily Life: The Contemporary Korean Reception of Agamemnon – The Ghost Sonata (2005) 325 / Yuh-Jhung Hwang -- Politics, Culture, and Classical Architectural Elements in Taiwan 342 / Chia-Lin Hsu -- Classical Studies in China 363 / Yang Huang -- Retrospective and Prospects of Ancient Western History Studies in Korea: Awaiting the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Korean Society of Western History 376 / Deogsu Kim -- A Brief Report on Classical Scholarship in Korea, Focusing on Literature 395 / Jaewon Ahn -- The Influence of Roman Law in Korea 411 / Byoung Jo Choe -- Western Classics at Chinese Universities – and Beyond: Some Subjective Observations 430 / Fritz-Heiner Mutschler -- Western Classics in Japan: Memories of Bungakubu, Kyoto, 1997–2002 445 / Elizabeth Craik -- The Reception of Parthenon Sculpture in Modern Japanese Art Studies 454 / Rui Nakamura -- Back Matter -- Index.