Masaru Aoki


Masaru Aoki was a Japanese Sinologist.

Works

Aoki wrote an article named "Hu Shih and the Chinese Literary Revolution" which was published in Chinese Study in 1920. During the 1930s and 1940s, Aoki's work was considered an important contribution to translating and studying Chinese literature.
Patricia Sieber wrote that "Aoki, an internationally influential Sinologist, presented his love affair with Chinese dramas as an intimate and aesthetic affair of the heart."
When I was a child, I was already extremely enamored of puppet theatre. Around 1907,... I came across Sasagawa Rinpu's History of Chinese Literature . The book quoted the "Startling Dream" scene from Xixiang ji . I did not yet fully comprehend what I read, but I was already thoroughly entranced. Later on, when I obtained a book that contained several annotated scenes of the Xinxiang ji, I was even happier. This was not only the beginning of my knowledge of, but also of my love for Chinese drama.

Some of his books include:
The Shina bungei shichō by Aoki was published in the Iwanami Koza series Sekai shichō in 1928. Wang Chün-yüh published a Chinese version in 1933, titled Chung-kuo ku-tai wen-i ssu-ch'ao lun.