Translation, Colonization, and the Fall of Utopia: The Qing Decline as Explained through Chinese Fiction

This study focuses on Meiji-period Japanese engagement with the late imperial Chinese novel Sequel to ‘The Water Margin’ (Shuihu houzhuan): an early Qing continuation of the classic Water Margin that focuses on the Liangshan outlaws’ colonization of a mythical “Siam” in the wake of the fall of the N...

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Main Author: William C. Hedberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2020-03-01
Series:Japanese Language and Literature
Online Access:http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/79