A Preface and A Recommendation of Reading Japanese Scholarship (original) (raw)

There was once a time when Western, especially American, sinologists customarily acquired their essential training in Japan. This was not only because of the political reality that after the Korean war, China was completely closed to the West in an America-centered new Asia-Pacific world order, but also because Japan had such a long tradition and rich legacy in the study of China. A good indication of Japanese influence on American Sinology is the introduction, in the time of Edwin 0. Reischauer and John K. Fairbank, of NAITO Konan's theory of China's early modernity in the 10th century

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