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Numbers in bold italics refer to illustrations. actors, see "Kabuki", and "Peking Asian world-spirit, 383 opera" Association for the Creation of National actresses, 220, 241-261; see also 'Japanese Painting (Kokuga sosaku kyokai): 12, theater" 13, 267, 276, 279; decadent "pure Adam and Eve, 41 art", 298; exhibitions, 283, 298, 283, Aestheticism: 9, aesthetic life, 167; art, 287, 294; founding member, 297, 305, 359; avant-garde, 381; era, 249, n. 63; painter, 277, 298; society, 282, 267,276; European movement, 144, 294;yoga section, 298 174, 175; decadence, 13, 14, 167,267, Association of Chinese Women Students 281, 304; fin-de-siecle revolutionaries, inJapan (Zhongguo liu Ri nti xuesheng 166; homosexuality, 396; intellectuals, hui), 126 279; judgment, 266; Kansai artists, At the Crossing, 369, 371 294; Taisho aestheticism (tanbi shugz), Australian Chinese colonists, 27 301 Awakening of Japan, The, 385 Ai Xia, 180 Azuma-buri, see "Eastern Style" Ajanta Cave, 279, 280 Akadama Port Wine: 337, 339, 344, n. Baihua, see "Vernacular []ourna~" 50; Akadama Port Wine Poster, 308, 310, bakujU, see "samurai government" 334,336,337,338,341,342; revue, Balibar, Etienne, 20 337 Bank of China: 217; chief of, 229 Akazome'emon, 152 Banknote Bureau, 91 Akita Ujaku, 246 banknotes: Japan, 55-104, 58, 59, 60, Akutagawa Ryunosuke, 372 86, 92; United States, 88; Australian Alt Heidelberg, 244-246, 248 notes, 63; Canadian, 63; Continental Amao guniang, see "Lass Amao, The" Banknote Company, 87 Amaterasu (sun goddess), 64, 97, 220, baomu, see "primary care givers" 221,386 Barlow, Tani E., 20, 52, 186, 187 Amazon, 56, 85, 103 bath-house girl (yuna), 298 Amazon, An, 356, 357, 358 Bathing Beauty (Nyiiyoku bijin zu), 316, 317 Amida (Amitabha) Buddha, 68, 270 Baudelaire, Charles, 174,384 Anderson, Benedict, 2, 55 Beardsley, Aubrey, 304, 360 Ang Lee, 197 Beautiful woman (bijin): 266, 304, 306, 320, Angell Treaty, 27, 28 337, 341, 342; Meiji, 271; Western Angles,Jeffrey Matthews, 297 stereotype of "the belle", 360; bijin-e Antiquarian League (Tankikai), 390 (Ukiyoe pictures of beauties), 316; bi• army (Japanese), 81, 85, 281 jinga (bijin-painting as painting genre), Art Theater (Geijutsuza), 243, 251, n. 22; 266,301,304,333,334; beauties after troupe, 254 bathing (yuagari bijin), 323, 398 Asahi Newspaper (Shinbun-sha), 266, n. Beautiful, New Chinese Woman, A, 367, 368 6, 342 Beethoven, Ludwig van, 165 Asai Chu, 337 Beijing Daify (Beijing ribao), 118 Ashikaga Yoshinori (shogun), 68 Beijing: 130, 186, 192-194, 197,217,227; "Asian Values" school, 22 Haidian suburb of, 198 Asian Venus, 279, 282 Bellamy, Edward, 34 430 INDEX

Ben no Tsubone, 152 Buddha qf Art (Furyubutsu), 156, n. 27 Benten, the Thief (Benten kozo), 40 I Buddhism: angels (tennin), 289; Indian art, Bergson, Henri, 383 279; concepts of transgender, 267; Bigot, Georges, 318, 319, 326 deities, 99; heavenly maidens (tenja), bijin, see "Beautiful women" 271; trinities (sanzon), 323 bijin-e, "pictures of beauties", see "Beauti• Bulletin of National History (Kokushi kiyif), ful woman" 94,95,98 biJin-ga (bijin-painting), see "Beautiful bun, see "refined culture" woman" Bungakukai, 165 BiJutsu hyaron, 322 Bungei kurabu, see "Literary Club" Bijutsu shinsetsu, see "Truth of Fine Arts, Bungei kyokai, see "Literary Art So• The" ciety" Bing Xin, 190, n. 25 burg·inga, see "Iiterati painting" bitai (coquetterie), see "bordello chic" Bunka and Bunsei eras (or "Ka-sei-ki"): Blue Stockings (Seita), 173, 243-244, 255, 383, 385, 398, 399, 416; gender am• 282 biguity, 412; Fukagawa, 393; sexual• Board of Education (Xuebu), 108, 109, ity,396 110,118 BunshO dokuhon, see "Manual qf Style" Bodhisattva: 74, 279, 281; gender of, BunshO sekai, 166 100, 268-275; Kannon (sanskr. Ava- Bunten, Salon of the Ministry of Culture, 10kiteSvara, Chin.Guanyin), 268, 274; see "Exhibitions" Kannon as Bodhisattva of Mercy, Burnett, Frances, 157 99, 267, 270, 271, 273-275, 277, bushida, see "Way of the warrior" 305; Kanzeon Bosatsu, 277; Gyoran Bust qf the Beautiful Young Salaino, 297 Kannon (Kannon with Fish Basket), Butterfly novels, 10; Butterfly heroine, 322 274, 275; thirty-three manifestations of Kannon, 271; Maria-Kannon, 271; Cai Yuanpei, 36 as prostitute, 274; Padmapani Avalo• Campbell, Robert, 390 kitesvara, 279, 280; Seishi (Mahastha• Carnal Prayer Mat (Roupu tuan), 149 maprapta), 270; yab-yum (Tibetan), sexual union of AvalokiteSvara and Carpenter, Edward, 281, 282 yakshini, 418 Casino Folies, 260 Book of Odes (Shijing), 109 Chance Meeting with Beautifol Women (Kajin Book of Rites (Liji), see "Confucianism" no kigu), 156 Book qf Tea, The, 383 Chang'e ben yue, see "Chang'e flying to the bordello chic (iki): coquetterie (bitm), 393, moon" 396, 397; iki, 12, 383, 384, 390, 393, Chang'e flying to the moon (Chang'e ben 403, 422; homonymns, 418; Kuki yue), 227, 231 Shiizo's definition of iki, 393; "pride" Chefoo Convention, 25 (ikijl) 397; resignation (akirame), 419; Chen Yongsheng, 130 sexual allure, 397; spirit, chivalrous Chen Yuzi, 193, 194, 195 of, (kyaki! otokogz), 399 Cheng Changgeng, 215 Botchan, 275 Chi Kan Ja, see " Wisdom Impression Boxer Protocols, 44 Sentiment" Boys' Festival (gosekku): 77, 79; parapher• Chiang Kai-shek, 185 nalia,93 Chiba Kei, 97,100,271,275 Bray, Francesca, 40 chic, see "bordello chic (ikl)" brothel: China, 117, 138; Japan, 386; Chikanobu, 389 Shanghai, 135, 136, 139 China: empire: 35, 135; government of, Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 152, 165 239; Japan's China as "other", 347, Bryson, Norman, 314, 341 348, 373, 381; Japan's colonization bu, see "martial bravery" of, 348, 381; nation state (guojia);