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100			_aKato, Naoko _953486
245			_aSaving China and admiring Japan: Cultural traitor Qian Daosun
260			_aModern Asian Studies
300			_a58(1), Jan, 2024: p.34-55
520			_aQian Daosun (1887–1966) was imprisoned for collaborating with the Provisional Government in North China under Japanese occupation, and to this day he is labelled as hanjian (traitor). Yet, Qian was first and foremost a cultural literatus, librarian, and an exceptional translator with an in-depth understanding of Japanese culture and languages. This article examines the crucial role that Japan and the Japanese language played for Chinese cultural literati in their quest to save China. It also brings to the forefront the dilemmas and agonizing choices Qian faced in his attempt to promote Sino-Japanese cultural exchange in the midst of war, in particular as a librarian. Wartime libraries are highly contested sites of selection, destruction, censorship, preservation, confiscation, and knowledge production. An added layer of complexity was Japan’s cultural policy in China that promoted Japanese-language collections and governed libraries such as the Beijing1 Modern Science Library where Qian worked. What exacerbated Qian’s dilemmas was his upbringing, which led him to form close personal connections with like-minded Japanese literati. Lastly, this article revisits the hanjian label by comparing Qian’s fate to that of other librarians and returned students of Japan, such as May Fourth writer Lu Xun and patriotic bibliophile Zheng Zhenduo. By deliberately examining May Fourth writers alongside hanjian and Japanese intermediaries, the intention is to dismount arbitrary labels and divisions that have set them apart and against each other in the resistance versus collaboration dichotomy.- Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/abs/saving-china-and-admiring-japan-cultural-traitor-qian-daosun/84BF50DDA1792B1CEC6BDBE952DBB57E
650			_aQian Daosun, Provisional Government, North China, Japanese occupation, Hanjian (traitor), Cultural literatus, Librarian, Translator, Japanese culture, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, Wartime libraries, Selection, Destruction, Censorship, Preservation, Confiscation, Knowledge production, Japan’s cultural policy, Beijing Modern Science Library, Personal connections, May Fourth writers, Lu Xun, Zheng Zhenduo, Resistance vs. collaboration dichotomy. _953487
773			_aModern Asian Studies
906			_aLIBRARIES
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