Strange Tales from Edo: Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan
William Fleming, University of California, Santa Barbara
Wed, 4/3 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm · 202 Jones Hall
East Asian Studies Program
In Strange Tales from Edo, William Fleming paints a sweeping picture of Japan’s engagement with Chinese fiction in the early modern period (1600–1868). Large-scale analyses of the full historical and bibliographical record—the first of their kind—document in detail the wholesale importation of Chinese fiction, the market for imported books and domestic reprint editions, and the critical role of manuscript practices—the ascendance of print culture notwithstanding—in the circulation of Chinese texts among Japanese readers and writers.
