Trajectories. Selected papers in East Asian studies 軌跡

For the third collection in the Florientalia Asian Studies Series we have chosen the title Trajectories 軌跡 to celebrate how scholars can always draw new routes, paths and directions with their research, even when it seems that everything has already been said and written on a specific matter. Trajectories cannot exist alone, they need an action to move them and give them direction, they can draw a straight line but also a curved one; they can fall afar or return to the starting point. So does research work, and we believe the scholars hosted in this volume, can really enrich the field of Chinese and Japanese Studies with the trajectories they have chosen for their research. This volume gathers articles by six contributors interested in different research areas within the field of East Asian Studies. The articles, organized in a Japanese and a Chinese section, use different approaches within humanities disciplines to explore topics ranging from classical and contemporary East Asian literature to the study of second language acquisition across European and Asian languages.