Japan and China

1. Ōshio Heihachirō and Legends from the Taiping Rebellion

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 116-125

2. Various and Sundry Images of Hong Xiuquan

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 126-135

3. The Dunbi suiwen lu and Various Other Writings about the Taiping Rebellion

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 136-145

4. The Kan’ei shōsetsu and the Riben qishi ji

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 146-155

5. Details Concerning the Riben qishi ji

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 156-166

6. Satsuma, Japanese Pirates, and Ming China

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 167-175

7. Satsuma, Ming China, and the Invasion of Korea

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 176-183

8. Zheng Chenggong and Guoxingye (Kokusen’ya, Koxinga)

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 184-195

9. The Min Shin tō ki

   • Masuda Wataru

   Pages 196-205

10. Back Matter

    Pages 206-298

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The study of modern China and Japan have separately become major arenas of scholarship over the past three decades in the west, but little work has been done that brings these two histories together for the period prior to the twentieth century. This work does just that. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other, but the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction.

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Fogel's translation is quite reliable and readable, and he improves significantly on Masuda's original...this is a book that every scholarly collection, research library, and reference room should include. Journal of Asian Studies

...Joshua A. Fogel has accomplished a major feat in bringing these essays into English...

-American Historical Review

Masuda Wataru (1903-1977) taught at Osaka Municipal University and Kansai University.

Joshua Fogel is with the Department of History at the University of California.

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