{"product_id":"modern-japanese-writers-and-kanshi-christopher-t-keaveney-9781680535860","title":"Modern Japanese Writers and Kanshi: Exophonic Literary Performance and the Shifting Sinosphere","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book explores the practice among Japanese writers in the modern era of composing \u003cem\u003ekanshi\u003c\/em\u003e, traditional Sinitic poetry. For the Japanese, writing poetry in Literary Sinitic (also known as Classical Chinese) is an \"exophonic\" practice, referring to the act of writing in a language other than one's native tongue. Meiji period (1868-1912) writers who, like generations of Japanese before them, received a traditional Confucian education, including studies in Literary Sinitic, were by and large capable of composing \u003cem\u003ekanshi\u003c\/em\u003e. As a result of changes in the Japanese education system following the Imperial Rescript on Education of 1890, and of shifting attitudes toward China after the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95), subsequent generations of Japanese were less proficient in Literary Sinitic. Yet, as this book documents, throughout the twentieth century and even in the twenty-first century, a small number of Japanese writers have continued to produce \u003cem\u003ekanshi\u003c\/em\u003e. Moreover, each generation of Japanese writers who have composed kanshi has turned to \u003cem\u003ekanshi \u003c\/em\u003ecomposition for a certain purpose and directed it to a specific audience in an act that this study refers to as \"exophonic literary performance.\" Interestingly, as the Japanese literary community has become increasingly multicultural, writers with roots in China have appeared, for whom the exophonic performance of \u003cem\u003ekanshi \u003c\/em\u003etakes on a special meaning, challenging the very idea of what it means to be a Japanese writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Christopher T. Keaveney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1680535862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781680535860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Academica Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Christopher T. Keaveney","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48154216956159,"sku":"9781680535860","price":79.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2f69e3ef-3c84-41c9-8049-f4ebd5296bad.jpg?v=1770788681","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/modern-japanese-writers-and-kanshi-christopher-t-keaveney-9781680535860","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}