Receptions of Greek and Roman antiquity in East Asia
In: Metaforms
In: Studies in the reception of classical antiquity volume 13
In: Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353282
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- John T. Hamilton -- List of Figures and Tables -- Note on Personal Names -- Notes on Contributors -- Receptions and Cross-Cultural Transfers: On Greco-Roman Antiquity in East Asia - An Introduction -- Almut-Barbara Renger and Xin Fan -- Part 1 -- Encountering Traditions: Early Exchanges and Transfers of Knowledge -- Chapter 1 -- The Jesuit Mission to China and the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Culture in China and Korea -- Andreas Müller-Lee -- Chapter 2 -- Reading Classical Latin Authors in the Jesuit Mission in China: Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries -- Noël Golvers -- Chapter 3 -- History and Reception of Greek and Latin Studies in Japan -- Ichiro Taida -- Part 2 -- Receiving Texts: The Travel of Tropes and Literary Fusions -- Chapter 4 -- Translating and Rewriting Western Classics in China (1920s-1930s): The Case of the Xueheng Journal -- Jinyu Liu -- Chapter 5 -- Toward a New Mode of Vernacular Chinese: A Study on Zhou Zuoren's Modern Translation of Theocritus' Id. 10 -- Lihua Zhang -- Co-translated by Jiaming Xiu and Lihua Zhang -- Chapter 6 -- St. Sebastian Reborn: Greco-Roman Ideals of the Body in Mishima Yukio's Postwar Writing -- Ikuho Amano -- Chapter 7 -- Retelling Medea in 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 -- Chapter 8 -- An Adoring Gaze: The Idea of Greece in Modern Japan -- Hiroshi Nara -- Chapter 9 -- Imagining Classical Antiquity in Twentieth-Century China -- Xin Fan -- Chapter 10 -- Leo Strauss and the Rebirth of Classics in China -- Xiaofeng Liu Translated by Guangchen Chen -- Chapter 11 -- The Ancient Greeks in Modern China: History and Metamorphosis -- Shadi Bartsch -- Part 4