Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-34012-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Metaforms

Receptions of Greek and Roman Antiquity in East Asia is an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and global effort to examine the receptions of the Western Classical tradition in a cross-cultural context. The inclusion of modern East Asia in Classical reception studies not only allows scholars in the field to expand the scope of their scholarly inquiries but will also become a vital step toward transcending the meaning of Greco-Roman tradition into a common legacy for all of human society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Renger, Almut-Barbara

Fan, Xin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Foreword

John T. Hamilton

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Almut-Barbara Renger and Xin Fan

Part 1: Encountering Traditions: Early Exchanges and Transfers of Knowledge

1 The Jesuit Mission to China and the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Culture in China and Korea

Andreas Müller-Lee

2 Reading Classical Latin Authors in the Jesuit Mission in China: Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Noël Golvers

3 History and Reception of Greek and Latin Studies in Japan

Ichiro Taida

Part 2: Receiving Texts: The Travel of Tropes and Literary Fusions

4 Translating and Rewriting Western Classics in China (1920s–1930s): The Case of the Xueheng Journal

Jinyu Liu

5 Toward a New Mode of Vernacular Chinese: A Study on Zhou Zuoren’s Modern Translation of Theocritus’ Id.10

Lihua Zhang

6 St. Sebastian Reborn: Greco-Roman Ideals of the Body in Mishima Yukio’s Postwar Writing

Ikuho Amano

7 Retelling Medeain Postwar Japan: The Function of Ancient Greece in Two Literary Adaptations by Mishima Yukio and Kurahashi Yumiko

Luciana Cardi

Part 3: Negotiating Terms: The Discourse of Antiquity and Modernity

8 An Adoring Gaze: The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan

Hiroshi Nara

9 Imagining Classical Antiquity in Twentieth-Century China

Xin Fan

10 Leo Strauss and the Rebirth of Classics in China

Xiaofeng Liu

11 The Ancient Greeks in Modern China: History and Metamorphosis

Shadi Bartsch

Part 4: Pluralizing Legacies: Visual, Material, and Performing Cultures

12 Cool Rome and Warm Japan: Thermae Romaeand the Promotion of Japanese Everyday Culture

Sari Kawana

13 Back to the Future: Reviving Classical Figures in Japanese Comics

Carla Scilabra

14 Queen Hudijin: A Medea-like Chinese Woman in Guo Moruo’s Historical Play The Peacock’s Gallbladder

Tianshu Yu

15 Seoul as an Exhibition Space of Urban Daily Life: The Contemporary Korean Reception of Agamemnon-Ghost Sonata (2005)

Yuh-Jhung Hwang

16 Politics, Culture, and Classical Architectural Elements in Taiwan

Chia-Lin Hsu

Part 5: Sharing Traditions: Western Classics in Contemporary East Asia

17 Classical Studies in China

Yang Huang

18 Retrospect and Prospect of Western Ancient History Studies in Korea: Awaiting the ‘Sixtieth Anniversary of the Korean Society of Western History’

Deogsu Kim

19 A Brief Report on Classical Scholarship in Korea, Focusing on Literature

Jaewon Ahn

20 The Influence of Roman Law in Korea

Byoung Jo Choe

21 Western Classics at Chinese Universities – and Beyond: Some Subjective Observations

Fritz-Heiner Mutschler

22 Western Classics in Japan: Memories of Bungakubu, Kyoto, 1997–2002

Elizabeth Craik

23 The Reception of Parthenon Sculpture in Modern Japanese Art Studies

Rui Nakamura

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Almut-Barbara Renger, Ph.D. (2001), Heidelberg University, is Professor of Ancient Religion, Culture and their Reception History at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published monographs and many articles on the relationship of religion and literature, diverse aspects of cultural and religious theory, dynamics in the history of religions between Asia, Europe and America, and the reception of Greco-Roman antiquity, including Oedipus and the Sphinx: The Threshold Myth from Sophocles through Freud to Cocteau (University of Chicago Press, 2013).

Xin Fan, Ph.D. (2013), Indiana University, is Assistant Professor of East Asian History at the State University of New York at Fredonia. He has published several articles and is finishing a monograph on world history in China.

Contributors are: Jaewon Ahn, Ikuho Amano, Shadi Bartsch, Luciana Cardi, Guangchen Chen, Byoung Jo Choe, Elizabeth Craik, Xin Fan, Neöl Golvers, Chia-Lin Hsu, Yuh-Jhung Hwang, Sari Kawana, Deogsu Kim, Haiying Liu, Jinyu Liu, Xiaofeng Liu, Andreas Müller-Lee, Fritz-Heiner Mutschler, Rui Nakamura, Hiroshi Nara, Almut-Barbara Renger, Carla Scilabra, Ichiro Taida, Yang Huang, Tianshu Yu, and Lihua Zhang.