Eastern Cultural Integration -- History of Japanese Literary Trends

Author: Ye Weiqiu
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is a scholarly monograph on the history of Japanese literary trends in China. The author approaches the subject from a new perspective, basing it on the indigenous literary thought of Japan. By adopting a historical dynamic analysis of the exchanges between Sinicized and Westernized literatures, the book systematically discusses the entire process of the development of literary trends. It begins with the chaotic state of various cultures, the self-generated awareness of primal literature, the contact and synthesis with Sinic literary thought, forming conceptual literary trends, and progresses to the collision and fusion with Western heterogeneous literary thought in modern times and after World War II, forming ideological literary trends. The book deeply analyzes the internal inevitability and external factors influencing the emergence, development, peak, and decline of various literary trends. Additionally, by exploring the correspondence and continuity in the evolution of Japanese literary trends from conceptual to ideological forms, it compares their fundamental theories and creative tendencies, highlighting their foreignness to grasp the developmental patterns of Japanese literary subjectivity and to emphasize its national characteristics. This is an important work for gaining a macroscopic understanding of the history of Japanese literature.