John Timothy Wixted

Chinese and Japanese Languages and Literatures

John Timothy Wixted


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Unless stated otherwise, the books, articles, talks, translations, reviews, etc. listed on this website are by John Timothy Wixted.


The following SIXTEEN webpages have been prepared:

Two résumés: an abridged one and a full (11-pp.) one.

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Six book covers reproduced.

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Five articles – including “‘Literary Sinitic’ and ‘Latin’ as Transregional Languages,” “One Westerner’s Research on Chinese and Japanese Languages and Literatures,” and “Reverse Orientalism” – two memorial notes, a book foreword, a translated article, a language-text citation, and book reviews.

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Material on the author's A Handbook to Classical Japanese 文語ハンドブック; an article on the Kokinshū Prefaces 古今集の序 (905-917); several articles (and related material) on kanbun 漢文 and kanshi 漢詩 (Sino-Japanese poetry); book reviews.

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Eleven articles that treat the kanshi 漢詩 of Mori Ōgai and additional material on the author, including his two most famous translations: Sokkyō shijin 卽興詩人 (The Impromptu Poet) by Hans Christian Andersen and Fausuto ファウスト (Faust) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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Book, book-translation, and article: namely, (A) Japanese Scholars of China: A Bibliographical Handbook; (B) translation of Yoshikawa Kōjirō 吉川幸次郎, Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650; and (C) “Some Sidelights on Japanese Sinologists of the Early Twentieth Century”—as well as assistance in translating a book by Saitō Mareshi 齋藤希史. Translated summaries of (1) seven articles on Chinese drama by Tanaka Issei 田仲一成; (2) scholarship by Kōzen Hiroshi 興膳宏 on Chinese literary theory and by Murakami Tetsumi 村上哲見 on ci 詞 song-poetry; (3) "Japanese scholarship on Chinese literature: 1973-83" by Satō Tamotsu 佐藤保; and (4) articles in an issue of Chūgoku bungaku hō 中国文学報.

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General Chinese literary theory and criticism. Two articles, including one on “‘Sincerity’ 誠 in Chinese Literary Theory.” A review-article on James J.Y. Liu 劉若愚, Chinese Theories of Literature. Reviews of Yip Wai-lim 葉維廉 , Diffusion of Distances, and John J. Deeney, ed, Chinese-Western Comparative Litera­ture. Summary of scholarship by Kōzen Hiroshi 興膳宏. Related material.

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Three articles related to Zong Rong and his work; treatment of the influence of the Shipin on later Chinese literary criticism; translations, book reviews, and research summary.

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Material on Tang- and Song-dynasty Chinese literary theory and criticism (as well as reviews of two books on a Song author): namely, translations of series of poems on poetry by Du Fu 杜甫 (712-770) and Dai Fugu 戴復古 (b. 1167); translation of “On the Song Lyric” 論詞 by Li Qingzhao 李清照 (b. 1084); articles on Song-dynasty and Western poems on poetry, also on ‘Sincerity’ 誠 in Chinese literary theory (including its formulation in the Zhongyong 中庸); and reviews of two books on Lu You 陸游 (1125-1209).

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On the ‘song-poetry’ genre (ci 詞) of Chinese poetry: a book on Wei Zhuang; 韋莊, The Song-Poetry of Wei Chuang (836-910 A.D.); an article on Li Qingzhao 李清照 (b. 1084); a book review of a translation of the Huajianji 花間集 (940) anthology; and two related translations.

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Material about two books on Yuan Haowen (1190-1257), as well as a book-chapter translation, reference-book entry, finding lists, and related articles and translation.

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Material on a translated book on poetry of the Jin 金, Yuan 元, and Ming 明 dynasties – Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650 by Yoshikawa Kōjirō 吉川幸次郎 – including contents and index, introductory chapter, Chinese texts, and list of reviews. Also an article on fourteenth-century poetry.

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Translation of “Marx Enters the Confucian Temple” 馬克斯進文廟 by Guo Moruo 郭沫若 (1892-1978). And references to other modern China material.

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Talks in Japanese presented at the following: a memorial service for Mori Ōgai 森鷗外 (1862-1922); the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tokyo University 東京大学; and The Toyo Bunko 東洋文庫.

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Talk in Chinese presented at a conference on Yuan Haowen 元好問 (1190-1257) and Jin Dynasty 金代 (1115-1234) literature.

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Spanish-language talks and articles on China and Japan: “Orientalismo a la inversa,” “Para entender el I Ching,” “Charla-debate sobre ‘Chinese Poetry,''’ “Influencias chinas en los Prefacios de Kokinshū,” “Kambun, historias de la literatura japonesa y japanólo­gos,” “Dos autores-traductores japoneses del período moderno: Mori Ogai y Tanizaki Jun’ichiro.”

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John Timothy Wixted

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