The Japan-China Goodwill Between Politics and Culture : A Study of the Welcome Party for Zhou Zouren Organized by the Japanese Association on Chinese Literature

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  • 政治と文化の狭間における日中親善 : 中国文学研究会が主催する周作人歓迎会について
  • セイジ　ト　ブンカ　ノ　ハザマ　ニ　オケル　ニッチュウ　シンゼン　チュウゴク　ブンガク　ケンキュウカイ　ガ　シュサイスル　ヂョウ　ズオレン　カンゲイカイ　ニ　ツイテ

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Abstract

This article focuses on the welcome party for Zhou Zouren organized by the Japanese Association on Chinese Literature in 1934. The Chinese writer Zhou Zouren visited Japan in July 1934 for personal reasons, receiving widespread attention from Japanese society. On August 4th, the Japanese Association on Chinese Literature founded by Takeuchi Yoshimi and others, held a welcome party for Zhou Zouren. This welcome party objectively followed the political slogan of “Japan-China Goodwill” promoted by the Government of Japan at that time, although it was not the intention of the members of the association, who were looking forward to the true cultural exchange between Japan and China. At the welcome party, Zhou Zouren talked about the literary circles in China and his position with the Japanese scholars and writers who attended this party. At the same time, Yanagisawa Takeshi, a bureaucrat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan, asked for Zhou Zuoren to make a concerted effort to achieve the cultural integration of Japan and China. It can be assumed that the interest of Japanese society in Zhou Zuoren's visit had political intentions at this time. This welcome party had already hinted at the fate of Zhou Zuoren and the members of the association, who would later be drawn into the political whirlpool of the Second Sino-Japanese War.

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  • CRID
    1050018428980393344
  • NII Book ID
    AA11562992
  • ISSN
    24349054
    13466224
  • HANDLE
    11094/95100
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    departmental bulletin paper
  • Data Source
    • IRDB

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