Rebekah Clements
Biographic Data
| ID | 524470 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebekah Clements |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebekah |
| FAMILY NAME | Clements |
| SIGNATURE | CLEMENTS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2597-0882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592-1598
On the eve of his invasion of Korea that launched the Imjin War (1592-8), the Japanese military hegemon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, held a spectacular hunt parade, the semiotics of which linked the hunting of human and animal trophies. During the war between Japan, Korea and China that followed, Hideyoshi's troops severed tens of thousands of body parts from combatants and non-combatants, sending heads, ears and noses to Japan for ritual curation alongs…
Iberian Sources on the Imjin War
Combining Iberian and East Asian primary source documents can provide a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century East Asian history. This is particularly true of the Imjin War (1592–98), the largest war in the world during the sixteenth century. Involving China, Korea, and Japan, it attracted close observation from Jesuit missionaries, who wrote a number of as yet largely unstudied accounts of the conflict and its implications for the Jesuit missio…
The Prose of Our Land
Today, Ban Kōkei 伴蒿蹊 (1733–1806) is mostly known as the author of a collection of biographies, which became one of the best-selling books of Japan's late eighteenth century. However, he also devoted much of his career to developing the expressive potential of Japanese prose writing. This article locates Kōkei's promotion of language reform within the context of contemporaneous developments in translation from classical into vernacular Japanese an…
A genealogy of tiger nationalism in Korea
This study applies a genealogical mode of enquiry to the history of tigers as a symbol of Korea and the Korean people. The zoomorphic idea of Korea as a tiger is conventionally traced to the writings of the intellectual, Ch'oe Namsŏn (1890–1957). However, we argue that while Ch'oe was the first to link tigers with modern Korean nationalism, low levels of literacy and Ch'oe's later ambiguous status as a Japanese “collaborator” meant his promotion …
Fighting for Forests
Warfare drove depletion of forests and forest management in the early modern world, as states required increasing control over timber resources to support their growing militaries. East Asia was no exception. Scholars have shown how the Chosŏn Korean state tightened control over forests via its navy during the seventeenth century, following invasions by the Japanese hegemon Toyotomi Hideyoshi between 1592 and 1598. This devastating conflict betwe…
Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
This study examines the practice of ‘alternate attendance’ ( sankin kōtai ), in which the daimyo lords of Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868) marched with their retainers between their home territories and the shogunal capital of Edo, roughly once a year. Research on alternate attendance has focused on the meaning of daimyo processions outside their domains ( han ), along Japan's highways and in the city of Edo. Here I argue that, even as daimyo embarked …
Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan
Reviewed by: Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms by Wai-Ming Ng Rebekah Clements (bio) Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms. By Wai-Ming Ng. SUNY Press, Albany, 2019. xxvi, 262 pages. $85.00, cloth; $26.95, paper. Wai-Ming Ng's study contains a wealth of information on the reception of Chinese texts and terms in Tokugawa Japan. Based on the author's articles in Chinese a…
Brush Talk as the ‘ Lingua Franca ’ of Diplomacy in Japanese–korean Encounters, C. 1600–1868
The study of early modern diplomatic history has in recent decades expanded beyond a bureaucratic, state-centric focus to consider the processes and personal interactions by which international relations were maintained. Scholars have begun to consider, among other factors, the role of diplomatic gifts, diplomatic hospitality, and diplomatic culture. This article contributes to this discussion from an East Asian perspective by considering the rol…
Speaking in Tongues? Daimyo, Zen Monks, and Spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661-1711
The scholarly narrative of spoken Chinese studies in Tokugawa Japan is dominated by Ogyū Sorai, who founded a translation society in 1711 and urged Japanese intellectuals to learn contemporary spoken Chinese in order to draw closer to the language of the Chinese classics. This article explores the decades prior to this, when Sorai served the powerful daimyo Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. By investigating Yoshiyasu's contact with Chinese monks and the surp…
Suematsu Kenchō and the first English translation ofGenji monogatari
In 1882 Suematsu Kenchō, Japanese diplomat, scholar, and politician, published an English translation of the first seventeen chapters of the Tale of Genji. Scant previous research has recognized Suematsu's political motivations but his translation has largely been consigned to a footnote in history and many important questions remain unanswered. This article examines the skillful ideological and linguistic ways in which Suematsu – who was later t…
Speaking in Tongues? Daimyo, Zen Monks, and Spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661-1711
The scholarly narrative of spoken Chinese studies in Tokugawa Japan is dominated by Ogyū Sorai, who founded a translation society in 1711 and urged Japanese intellectuals to learn contemporary spoken Chinese in order to draw closer to the language of the Chinese classics. This article explores the decades prior to this, when Sorai served the powerful daimyo Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. By investigating Yoshiyasu's contact with Chinese monks and the surp…
Brush Talk as the ‘ Lingua Franca ’ of Diplomacy in Japanese–korean Encounters, C. 1600–1868
The study of early modern diplomatic history has in recent decades expanded beyond a bureaucratic, state-centric focus to consider the processes and personal interactions by which international relations were maintained. Scholars have begun to consider, among other factors, the role of diplomatic gifts, diplomatic hospitality, and diplomatic culture. This article contributes to this discussion from an East Asian perspective by considering the rol…
Suematsu Kenchō and the first English translation ofGenji monogatari
In 1882 Suematsu Kenchō, Japanese diplomat, scholar, and politician, published an English translation of the first seventeen chapters of the Tale of Genji. Scant previous research has recognized Suematsu's political motivations but his translation has largely been consigned to a footnote in history and many important questions remain unanswered. This article examines the skillful ideological and linguistic ways in which Suematsu – who was later t…
Speaking in Tongues? Daimyo, Zen Monks, and Spoken Chinese in Japan, 1661-1711
The scholarly narrative of spoken Chinese studies in Tokugawa Japan is dominated by Ogyū Sorai, who founded a translation society in 1711 and urged Japanese intellectuals to learn contemporary spoken Chinese in order to draw closer to the language of the Chinese classics. This article explores the decades prior to this, when Sorai served the powerful daimyo Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. By investigating Yoshiyasu's contact with Chinese monks and the surp…
Brush Talk as the ‘ Lingua Franca ’ of Diplomacy in Japanese–korean Encounters, C. 1600–1868
The study of early modern diplomatic history has in recent decades expanded beyond a bureaucratic, state-centric focus to consider the processes and personal interactions by which international relations were maintained. Scholars have begun to consider, among other factors, the role of diplomatic gifts, diplomatic hospitality, and diplomatic culture. This article contributes to this discussion from an East Asian perspective by considering the rol…
Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan
Reviewed by: Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms by Wai-Ming Ng Rebekah Clements (bio) Imagining China in Tokugawa Japan: Legends, Classics, and Historical Terms. By Wai-Ming Ng. SUNY Press, Albany, 2019. xxvi, 262 pages. $85.00, cloth; $26.95, paper. Wai-Ming Ng's study contains a wealth of information on the reception of Chinese texts and terms in Tokugawa Japan. Based on the author's articles in Chinese a…
A genealogy of tiger nationalism in Korea
This study applies a genealogical mode of enquiry to the history of tigers as a symbol of Korea and the Korean people. The zoomorphic idea of Korea as a tiger is conventionally traced to the writings of the intellectual, Ch'oe Namsŏn (1890–1957). However, we argue that while Ch'oe was the first to link tigers with modern Korean nationalism, low levels of literacy and Ch'oe's later ambiguous status as a Japanese “collaborator” meant his promotion …
Fighting for Forests
Warfare drove depletion of forests and forest management in the early modern world, as states required increasing control over timber resources to support their growing militaries. East Asia was no exception. Scholars have shown how the Chosŏn Korean state tightened control over forests via its navy during the seventeenth century, following invasions by the Japanese hegemon Toyotomi Hideyoshi between 1592 and 1598. This devastating conflict betwe…
Alternate Attendance Parades in the Japanese Domain of Satsuma, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries
This study examines the practice of ‘alternate attendance’ ( sankin kōtai ), in which the daimyo lords of Tokugawa Japan (1600–1868) marched with their retainers between their home territories and the shogunal capital of Edo, roughly once a year. Research on alternate attendance has focused on the meaning of daimyo processions outside their domains ( han ), along Japan's highways and in the city of Edo. Here I argue that, even as daimyo embarked …
Iberian Sources on the Imjin War
Combining Iberian and East Asian primary source documents can provide a fresh perspective on sixteenth-century East Asian history. This is particularly true of the Imjin War (1592–98), the largest war in the world during the sixteenth century. Involving China, Korea, and Japan, it attracted close observation from Jesuit missionaries, who wrote a number of as yet largely unstudied accounts of the conflict and its implications for the Jesuit missio…
The Prose of Our Land
Today, Ban Kōkei 伴蒿蹊 (1733–1806) is mostly known as the author of a collection of biographies, which became one of the best-selling books of Japan's late eighteenth century. However, he also devoted much of his career to developing the expressive potential of Japanese prose writing. This article locates Kōkei's promotion of language reform within the context of contemporaneous developments in translation from classical into vernacular Japanese an…
Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592-1598
On the eve of his invasion of Korea that launched the Imjin War (1592-8), the Japanese military hegemon, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, held a spectacular hunt parade, the semiotics of which linked the hunting of human and animal trophies. During the war between Japan, Korea and China that followed, Hideyoshi's troops severed tens of thousands of body parts from combatants and non-combatants, sending heads, ears and noses to Japan for ritual curation alongs…
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