The Emergence of the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon: Seven Studies (East Asian Comparative Literature and Culture, 7)

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. Contents 6 Series Editors’ Foreword 8 Introduction: Seven Japanese Studies on the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon 12 Chapter 1 The Creation of the Term Kojin (Individual) 20 Chapter 2 Religion (shūkyō) and Freedom ( jiyū) 92 Chapter 3 The Formation of the Term Shakai (Society) 40 Chapter 4 Liberty-Freedom: Yanagita Kunio’s Resistance 124 Chapter 5 The Concept of “Rights” 136 Chapter 6 Terminology Surrounding the “Tripartite Separation of Powers” 151 Chapter 7 Dreams of “Science” and “Truth” 192 Index 216 The seven essays that comprise this volume address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms in modern Chinese and Japanese came into being, how they outdistanced all competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process