Name: Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Hardcover/Mareshi Saito
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In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature , Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of kanbun and kanshi in the creation of modern literary Japanese and problematizes the modern antagonism between kanbun and Japanese. About author(s): Saito Mareshi is Professor at the University of Tokyo. Trained at the University of Kyoto, he specializes in premodern Sinitic literature, the history of the sinographic tradition in Japan, and the role of sinographs and Literary Sinitic in modernizing East Asia. Ross King earned his PhD in Linguistics at Harvard University, and specializes in the history of language, reading, writing and literary cultures in the sinographic sphere, with a focus on Korea in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Christina Laffin received her PhD in premodern Japanese literature at Columbia University, and specializes in premodern Japanese literature with a focus on women's writing, travel diaries, and the sociohistorical contexts for women's education, socialization, and literacy.