From Chang'an to Japan: Capital Space and Literary Archeology

About This Novel

Using the perspective of "capital", this book explores the duplication and appropriation of Tang Chang'an City space in Japan under the background of the formation and disintegration of the "East Asian Capital Era", and the chain reactions it caused in ancient Japanese literature. Taking the fall of the Tang Dynasty in the tenth century and the loss of Chang'an as a model capital city in East Asia as a watershed, this book attempts to answer two questions: first, the discord between Japan's imitation of the space of Tang Chang'an City before the ninth century and the sparse writing on Chang'an by Japanese literati; second, with the "disappearance" of Tang Chang'an City and the changes in the East Asian pattern since the tenth century, how "Chang'an" became a means for Japanese literati to construct national identity and obtain the identity of "Little China" in the East Asian world. This book comprehensively uses cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary research methods to explain the relationship between capital space, royal writing and national imagination in ancient China and Japan.

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