Japanese for Sinologists: A Reading Primer with Glossaries and Translations

by Joshua A. Fogel, Fumiko Joo

Overview

For many years it has been known that scholars of Chinese history and culture must keep abreast of scholarship in Japan, but the great majority have found that to be difficult. Japanese for Sinologists is the first textbook dedicated to helping Sinologists learn to read scholarly Japanese writing on China. It includes essays by eminent scholars, vocabulary lists with romanizations, English translations, grammar notes, and a wealth of general information not easily available anywhere.
 
The reader will be introduced to a wide panoply of famed Sinologists and their writing styles. The first chapters introduce some basic information on dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other resources for research on China in Japanese materials, including a list of names and terms from Chinese political, historical, and cultural events. The chapters cover a range of topics and time periods and highlight authors, all well-known Japanese scholars, with an appendix of English translations of all the articles. After completing this book, the user will be able to begin his or her own reading in Japanese Sinology without the extensive apparatus this volume supplies.  

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520284395
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	07/18/2017
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Joshua A. Fogel is Canada Research Chair in modern Chinese history at York University. He specializes in the cultural ties between China and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent book is Maiden Voyage: The Senzaimaru and the Creation of Modern Sino-Japanese Relations.
 
Fumiko Joo is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures at Mississippi State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Translation Tables for Sinologists 13

a Chinese Historical Eras 13

b Selected Chinese Place Names 14

c Historical Proper Nouns (through 1949) 16

2 Japanese Dictionaries Aimed at Sinologists 27

3 "Qiu Jin" Oshima Toshikazu 37

4 "Introduction: A History of Research on the Donglin Party" Ono Kazuko 45

5 "Issues in Our View of Sun Yat-sen" Takeuchi Yoshimi 67

6 "The Commoner Nature of Culture in the Ming Period" Shimada Kenji 119

7 "Was the Jingchu 4 Mirror a Product of the Daifang Commandery?" Miyazaki Ichisada 183

8 Yoshikawa Kojiro 205

a "Du Fu: A Personal Account" 205

b "First Year of the Xiantian Era" 205

9 "Fengjian and Feudalism in Chinese Society" Niida Noboru 265

10 "Cultural Life in Modern China" Naito Konan 329

Appendix of Translations 379