- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index
Chinese and Japanese Studies
Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Chapter:
- (p.301) Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Source:
- A Century of British Medieval Studies
- Author(s):
Anne Birrell
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter examines British work on Chinese and Japanese studies. It explains that for a significant part of the twentieth century British sinologists have been trendsetters worldwide in the field of medieval studies. Most of the British research focused on Tun-huang studies, the Taoist canon, Buddhist temple art, Chinese landscape painting, Sung porcelain and Chinese poetry. This chapter also stresses the need to examine the concepts of gender and egalitarianism with the framework of current trends in medieval sinology.
Keywords: Chinese studies, Japanese studies, British sinologists, medieval studies, Tun-huang studies, Taoist canon, Buddhist temple art, Chinese landscape painting, Sung porcelain, Chinese poetry
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Anglo-Saxon England
- English History 1066–1272
- English Political History of the Late Middle Ages, 1272–c. 1520
- European History
- Ecclesiastical History
- Economic History
- Legal History
- Byzantine Scholarship: Twelfth-Century Constantinople, Twentieth-Century Britain
- Celtic Studies
- Old Norse-Icelandic Studies
- Slavonic Studies
- Chinese and Japanese Studies
- Language
- Latin
- Old English
- Middle English Literature
- German Studies
- Romance Studies 1: Francophone Studies
- Romance Studies 2: Hispanic Literatures
- Romance Studies 3: Dante
- Artefacts, Sites and Landscapes: Archaeology and Medieval Studies
- Numismatics
- History of Science and Medicine
- Cartography
- Medieval Thought
- Musicology
- The Study of Medieval Art I: 1900–50
- The Study of Medieval Art 2: 1950–2000
- Metrics
- The History of the Book
- Epilogue
- Index of Scholars
- Subject Index