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From A Source of Wisdom to a Consumed Other--Imaging China in Modern Japan's Evolving Narratives on the "Records of the Three Kingdoms"

In the history of Japanese society spread of the Three Kingdoms story, mainly the integration of China's " Records of Three Kingdoms" and " Romance of the Three Kingdoms" the two different meanings of the text.Prior to the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the "Records of Three Kingdoms" is the record of the past history of China Ministry of history books, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is the "Three Kingdoms" and popular version, to explain the "Three Kingdoms" in content.Both in terms of Chinese society may be different meaning of the text, but Japanese society is concerned, the difference may be only a difference in narrative to convey the message and meaning are the same, is the story of the history of recorded foreign text.The purpose of this study is to explore Japanese society in a different era, the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", after the translation or interpretation, they demonstrate the significance of changes in China's image.
Edo period of Japanese society has entered the peace, the general public began to have the ability to make contact with the consumer culture of the goods, "Three Kingdoms" in the space environment, such as the Japanese study Chinese history and culture of reference.
When the Meiji Restoration, Japan was the impact of Western culture, a change in the past the Chinese learning attitude. "Three Kingdoms" has become the object of Japanese society, one study of Chinese. After World War I's high economic growth in Japan, the Japanese appear to read popular, and the commercialization of culture phenomenon. Mr Eiichi Yoshikawa Lynch's "Three Kingdoms" that reflects Japanese society, the rise of popular culture and Japanese society as a whole into the era of mass consumption. At this time the "Three Kingdoms" is regarded as China's history textbooks from the thinking, culture change has become a popular consumer goods.
Japanese popular culture after World War II, the content, although generally extend the pre-war American popular culture with this combination of traditional Japanese social and moral of the model, and then updated by the development of the media, while for a number of performance, that is, Japanese comics one of them. 1970s, Yokoyama "Three Kingdoms" a Japanese comic book which, on behalf of a Chinese theme of the works. Further developed with China's image and culture related creation.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0728111-142943
Date28 July 2011
CreatorsTung, Hue-Jen
ContributorsShih-hsiung Chow, Yuan-hao Li, Chih-Yu Shih, Yi-jin Li
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0728111-142943
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