Balance and Difference: On the History of the Exchange between Chinese and Japanese literature;

Basing on the analysis of The Book of Songs and Manyoshu,this dissertation examines some differences between Chinese and Japanese literature,such as their social morality functions,their eulogizing love,praising nature and so on.

To further develop the comparative studies of Chinese and Japanese Literature, the theoretical awareness must first be intensified, and the limit imposed by the positivist research methods be broken through, so that the verification of “facts” can be raised to the interpretation of “meaning,”.

On the basis of proofreading the tome word for word,its value-studying is discussed from two aspects of the Book of Songs s philology and the literary communion history of Japan-China.

Reviewing the 20th century,the Comparative Literature Research between China and Japan has gone through two long periods:period of exploration and period of rapid growth,and a great achievement has been made in this field.

In the 1870s and 1880s,people who participated in the Sino-Japanese literature exchange were mainly the Chinese embassy officials and intellectuals in Japan,most of whom were learned scholars and liked traveling and writing,they often feasted with Japan\'s first-class writers and composed poems,conversed in writing at the elegant gathering and created many well-known poems and articles.