| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.1

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Masuda Wataru. Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era. Translated by Joshua A. Fogel. New York: St. Martin's. 2000. Pp. ix, 298.

This collection of twenty-eight detailed bibliographic essays by the erudite Japanese scholar of modern Chinese literature, Masuda Wataru (1903–1977), provides extraordinary glimpses into the complex intertextualities of Japanese attempts in the nineteenth century to make sense of China. Masuda addresses four areas: the earliest forms of knowledge of the West that Japanese gleaned from Chinese books (chapters one through six), Japanese and Chinese documentary evidence regarding the Opium War (chapters seven through fifteen), Japanese knowledge of the Taiping Rebellion (chapters sixteen through twenty-two), and materials on Japanese piracy on the China coast in the seventeenth century (chapters twenty-three through twenty-eight). He tackles these topics in order to settle important questions in Sino-Japanese history, but also to reflect on the epistemological dilemma that Japanese faced in trying to understand events in China as one country outstripped the other in adapting to the new global environment of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Specialists engaged either with this problematic or with the particular historical events Masuda addresses will find his careful bibliographic reconstructions and multifaceted analyses worth pursuing through the dense details that would have delighted his Japanese readers when the essays were first published in the 1970s. . . .

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