Nagai Kafū's Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self

Acknowledgements

Acknowledgments The bulk of this volume was completed on a sabbatical supported by a Picker Research Fellowship, granted by the Colgate University Research V  X [  \    J@ V]^   of the University of Pennsylvania Center for East Asian Studies for hosting me as visiting researcher for 2006–2007. The original research project was carried out at the University of Oxford, with the generous    ?Q=  Q   QV%  V  _   [>@    Q  %&[ The dissertation was completed with the assistance of the TEPCO Senior Studentship at Pembroke College. I would like to express my sincere thanks to my dissertation supervisor, Brian Powell, for his  ]       X  to many people for their insightful comments on various stages of the manuscript, including Roger Goodman, Arthur Stockwin, Ann Waswo, Phillip Harries, Keiko Tanaka, Stephen Dodd, Peter Kornicki, and Ivo Smits. I thank Mark Morris, Atsuko Sakaki, Susan Napier, QQ]V Q|X ]   }     at conferences and workshops. For their encouragement I must thank Mark Williams, Michael Bourdaghs, Faye Yuan Kleeman, Hiroshi Nara, V  /   \]~] }   I must also acknowledge the support and encouragement given to me by Henry Chan and Leith Morton, who saw this project grow from its very beginnings in my Honours thesis at the University of Newcastle, &        ] [       $%  @    ] [[ ^]%      ]  ] work to the present day. For funding that enabled me to present my work at a number of conferences, I would like to thank the British Academy, the ~ &    Q  V  €\ $ %  University, the University of Leeds School of Modern Languages vii viii Acknowledgments and Cultures, the Colgate University Faculty Development Council, and the University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences. Many thanks are due to Hiroshi Nara, Amy Dooling and Fred Dickinson for inviting me to present on my research at the University of Pittsburgh, Connecticut College, and the University of Pennsylvania. I would \   \ ] &      [ [       ]    [  $%  ?         me to so many people interested in the local history. Many thanks go  Q V   ]\‚@ ]  Western Michigan, where discussion and questions were very helpful. Some material in Chapter 1 appeared originally in a somewhat different form in Monumenta Nipponica 62.3 (Autumn 2007), pp. 323–345. Chapter 1 also includes some material revised from the essay ‘Who ^  ƒ= [V} $% Tales of America% in Rachael Hutchinson and Mark Williams (eds.), Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature: A Critical Approach, Routledge, British &    Q  Q †‡‡ˆ;+‰+"Q    Chapter 4 are revised from my article “Occidentalism and Critique ofŠ_‹  Q   $GJapan Forum, 13.2 (2001) pp. 195–213. I am grateful to the University of Delaware College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures for granting a publication subvention for this book, and to Nancy Ellegate at SUNY Press for her guidance in manuscript preparation. I thank the two anonymous readers of my text whose questions and  ]  Œ   ] Thanks go to Carrie Lorensen for her help in retyping sections of the manuscript. I am extremely grateful to Izumi Tytler and her staff at ~  ?] @  [  the helpful people at the East Asian Library at Princeton University. I would like to thank all my students at the University of Leeds, Colgate University, and the University of Delaware for listening to my ideas   $            [ he was included in the original syllabus. Finally, I thank my family, who have supported all my efforts with unceasing good humor and encouragement. I am sorry that myŠ          _  \  long in the making, but thank her and my Dad for their unfailing support through the years. My sister Ruth has long put up with my ramblings on Orientalism, while the Bohm family provided a cheerful environment in which many early drafts of chapters were ix Acknowledgments    ‹\    ]   ] [    ? V  and daughter Natalie, who help me every day to do my work and be a Mum as well. K   [?@  []   X   [   [ [ %     ‹\  % |   ‹\[ Q| \    Q| \   ?@ name it is used throughout—Futabatei Shimei instead of Hasegawa‹  \$  Q|\  ...