Japanese Confucians and Edo Life
by Xu Chuan
About This Novel
This book first examines the development of Japan's commodity economy in the early 19th century, which promoted rapid urban development, the rise of "machi people" culture, and the commercialization of entertainment and Chinese literary works that popularized knowledge. The later textual research was influenced by urban narrative literature such as "Tokyo Menghualu" and "Panqiao Miscellaneous Notes" in my country. The middle and lower class intellectuals at the end of the Tokugawa period imitated and created the "Manshangki" series of Chinese "play" novels. Especially represented by "Edo Nosho Chronicles" and "Nosho Postscript", the irony and pungency reveal the corruption behind the superficial glitz of society under the shogunate.
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