The Emergence of the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon

Download or read book The Emergence of the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-02-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.