The emergence of the modern Sino-Japanese lexicon : seven studies
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The emergence of the modern Sino-Japanese lexicon : seven studies
(East Asian comparative literature and culture / edited by Zhang Longxi, Wiebke Denecke, v. 7)
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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It has long been known that the modern Chinese language inherited numerous terms from Japanese and that Japanese coined many of those terms in the last decades of the 19th century. These seven essays address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms came into being, how they outdistanced competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process. Rather than relying on received tropes of translation heritage, these essays delve much deeper into the particularities of their cases. They set a standard for subsequent scholarship.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Seven Japanese Studies on the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon
1. Saito Tsuyoshi, The Creation of the Term Kojin (Individual)
2. Saito Tsuyoshi, The Formation of the Term Shakai (Society)
3. Suzuki Shuji, Religion (shukyo) and Freedom (jiyu)
4. Yanabu Akira, Liberty-Freedom: Yanagita Kunio's Resistance
5. Yanabu Akira, The Concept of "Rights"
6. Suzuki Shuji, Terminology Surrounding the "Tripartite Separation of Powers"
7. Suzuki Shuji, Dreams of "Science" and "Truth"
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