What Modern Japanese Literature Scholars Are Doing in China : Their Studies and Education Today(<Special Issue>The 57th JLA Convention (2nd Day))

Abstract

In the fall of 2002 I visited a university in Guangzhou, China. During the three-month stay, I found out that any Japanese literature scholar of the university was required to have a good knowledge of historical, economical, and political relations between China and Japan. In other words, they have been trained to read literary texts in a broader context. Studies of Japanese literature in China are, needless to say, quite different from our still text-oriented ones. Now there some new methods are more energetically sought after and more freely experimented. Their activities challenge our closed way of researching and our perception of literature itself.