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Framing the Original: Toward a New Visibility of the Orient

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Rey Chow
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A friend, long deceased, once told me how he had decided to specialize in Japanese literature. In the early 1970s, he heard a talk by a well-known Japanologist, who contrasted China study and Japan study by citing the opening lines of two primers for foreign students. The Chinese primer began with the line “I am hungry”; the Japanese one began with the line “The cherry blossoms are falling from the sky.” My friend chose to go the way of the cherry blossoms.

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PMLA , Volume 126 , Issue 3 , May 2011 , pp. 555 - 563
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2011

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