Gebundenes Buch

Interdisciplinary Edo

Toward an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan

Herausgeber: Schlachet, Joshua; Hedberg, William C.

Beschreibung

Interdisciplinary Edo brings together scholars from across the methodological spectrum to explore new approaches to innovative humanistic research on early modern Japan (1603-1868).

Autor

Joshua Schlachet is an Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, where he teaches courses on Japanese history, dietary cultures, and everyday life. He is a historian of early modern Japan, specializing in the cultural history of food and nourishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His monograph in progress, Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan, examines the emergence of dietary common knowledge and its engagement with social hierarchy, economic productivity, and moral cultivation. William C. Hedberg is an Associate Professor of Japanese literature at Arizona State University. His primary focus is the Japanese reception of Chinese fiction and drama during the early modern period, and he is the author of The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin and the Making of a National Canon (2019). His current research project focuses on the literature and culture of travel in Edo-period Japan, with special emphasis on Japanese perceptions of the Manchu conquest of the Ming.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 584g
• ISBN-13: 9781032268019
• ISBN-10: 1032268018
• Artikelnr.: 70151109