Okay, here is the translation following your instructions: Junzo Tanizaki and Orientalism: The Chinese Fantasy of Taisho Japan

Author: (Japanese) Daisuke Nishihara
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: This book takes Kafu Nagai as an example to examine Japanese Orientalist discourse centered around the Taisho era. Orientalism emerged in the Western world in the late 18th century. Edward Said, an American comparative literary scholar, published "Orientalism" in 1978, sharply critiquing how Western literature, art, and academic works had adopted Orientalist perspectives, which also influenced modern Japan's views on other Asian countries. Consequently, the Chinese perspective of the Japanese was also shaped by Orientalism originating in the West. The author will provide a detailed analysis of how and how Japanese Orientalist discourse developed and spread in this book. Although Kafu Nagai was a world-renowned literary giant, his works related to China only began to attract academic attention recently. Nagai visited mainland China twice in 1918 and 1926, composing over a dozen travel essays, novels, and short stories. The "China interest" pioneered by Nagai once became fashionable and had a significant influence on contemporary Japanese writers such as Kafu Nagai, Sadamu Satō, and Kikuzō Kinoshita. However, unfortunately, among Japanese scholars who study modern Japanese literature, few are proficient in Chinese. Based on Said's theory of Orientalism, this book not only analyzes the Orientalist discourse in Nagai's works but also extensively incorporates materials from both Japan and China, providing as thorough an examination as possible of Nagai's two trips to China.