Workshop: The Water Margin and Beyond: Chinese Narrative in Early Modern Japan
Friday, May 8th, 2026
space limited: RSVP required (contact: William Fleming)
Ellis Tinios (University of Leeds)
“Visualizing China in Print: The Water Margin and the print and book trade in Japan, 1805–38” (Zoom)
William Hedberg (Arizona State University)
“Some New Ways of Looking at Old Ways of Looking at Early Modern Translation”
Fumiko Jōo (Mississippi State University)
“Inventing the Past: Reincarnation and Antiquarianism in Santō Kyōden’s Ukibotan zenden”
Katherine Saltzman-Li (UCSB)
“Visualizing Tōjin in Edo-period Kabuki and Prints”
Yoshitaka Yamamoto (Yale University)
“Zhuge Liang in the Snow: Intersections of Vernacular Chinese Fiction, Painting, and Sinitic Poetry in Early Modern Japan”
Ye Yuan (Oberlin College)
“Colloquial Sinitic: Textual Colloquialism and Ming-Qing Popular Fiction in Early Modern Japan”
Yu Zhang (UCSB)
“When Outlaws Became Exemplary Women: Rewriting Gender and Virtue in Kyokutei Bakin’s (1767-1848) Keisei Suikoden”
William Fleming (UCSB)
“In-Laws of the Marsh: Water Margin Parodies from the Bakumatsu and Early Meiji Periods”
