Document Outline

  • Contents
  • Introduction: My Route into Asian Studies
  • Art History and Sino-Japanese Relations
  • Miyazaki Tōten and the 1911 Revolution
  • New Thoughts on an Old Controversy: Shina as a Toponym for China
  • The Gold Seal of 57 CE and the Afterlife of an Inanimate Object
  • Japanese Views of China in Historical Perspective
  • Translator’s Preface to Books and Boats (Ōba Osamu)
  • The Recent Boom in Shanghai Studies
  • Chinggis on the Japanese Mind
  • A Decisive Turning Point in Sino-Japanese Relations: The Senzaimaru Voyage to Shanghai of 1862
  • Lust for Still Life: Chinese Painters in Japan and Japanese Painters in China in the 1860s and 1870s
  • The Nanking Atrocity and Chinese Historical Memory
  • Prostitutes and Painters
  • On Translating Shiba Ryōtarō into English
  • Tackling the Translation of an Invaluable Primary Source that No One Person Would Dare Face Alone
  • Introduction: Liang Qichao and Japan
  • Response to Herbert P. Bix, “Remembering the Nanking Massacre”
  • Naitō Konan and Naitō’s Historiography: A Reconsideration in the Early Twenty-First Century
  • Japanese Travelers to Shanghai in the 1860s
  • An Important Japanese Source for Chinese Business History
  • Chinese Understanding of the Japanese Language from Ming to Qing
  • “Shanghai-Japan”: The Japanese Residents’ Association of Shanghai
  • Introduction: Masuda Wataru and the Study of Modern China
  • The Japanese and the Jews: A Comparative Analysis of Their Communities in Harbin, 1898–1930
  • The Controversy over Iris Chang’s Rape of Nanking
  • The Nanjing Massacre in History
  • Integrating into Chinese Society: A Comparison of the Japanese Communities of Shanghai and Harbin
  • The Other Japanese Community: Leftwing Japanese Activities in Wartime Shanghai
  • Akutagawa Ryūnosuke and China
  • Confucian Pilgrim: Uno Tetsuto’s Travels in China
  • Japanese Travelers in Wartime China
  • Nationalism, the Rise of the Vernacular, and the Conceptualization of Modernization in East Asian Comparative Perspective
  • Recent Translation Theory and Linguistic Borrowing in the Modern Sino-Chinese Cultural Context
  • Japanese Literary Travelers in Prewar China
  • Japanese Approaches to the Cultural Revolution: A Review of Kokubun Ryōsei’s Survey of the Literature
  • The Debates over the Asiatic Mode of Production in Soviet Russia, China, and Japan
  • Introduction: Itō Takeo and the Research Work of the South Manchurian Railway Company
  • A New Direction in Japanese Sinology
  • On the “Rediscovery” of the Chinese Past: Cui Shu and Related Cases
  • Index