Volume 13 • Issue 1 • April 2026
Special Issue: The Power of Witness: Japanese and Korean Sojourners in China, ca. 1840-1950
Special Issue Editors: STEPHEN RODDY and LIU YUCAI
Table of Contents
One Hundred Hearsay Accounts are not Worth a Single Direct Observation
STEPHEN RODDY
Japanese Perceptions of Qing China in Late Edo Castaway Accounts: The Eijūmaru Narratives
JOSÉ MANUEL ESCALONA ECHÁNIZ
A History of the Kojō Tandō Collection, Keiō University
TOMOHIKO SUMIYOSHI
STEPHEN RODDY, translator
Bunkyūdō Bookshop (1898–1954): Sino-Japanese Scholarly Exchange and the Circulation of Chinese Books
LIU YUCAI
HARDY STEWART, translator
Beyond Geographical Determinism: Reapproaching the North-South Divide of China in Naitō Konan’s (1866-1934) Enzan Sosui
ZHAOKUN XIN
Vignetting China in Extraordinary Times: The Late Poetry and Prose of Kim Taek-young 金澤榮 (1850–1927), 1905–1927
PAN JINGRU
HARDY STEWART, translator
Sinophile, Nationalist, Exile: The Tragedy and Triumph of Kim Taegyeong
SOOKJA CHO and STEPHEN RODDY
Flânerie à la chinoise: Tanizaki Jun’ichirō in Jiangnan
LIU JIANHUI
Imazeki Tenpō’s Interactions with East Asian Intellectuals and the Postwar Sinitic Poetry Magazine Gayū
MATTHEW FRALEIGH
Kuraishi Takeshirō and the Circulation of Scholarly Texts in Republican China
WU ZHEN
YU-NING LIU, translator
Contributors