Edited by Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung and Joachim Kurtz. Leiden: Brill 2001 (Sinica Leidensia 52). xiv + 460 pages. ISBN: 90-04-12046-7. List price Euro 81.- / US$ 94.-. The essays brought together in this volume deal with a variety of issues concerning the invention, dissemination and standardization of modern Chinese terms in different domains of the social and natural sciences. Topics examined range from preconceptions about the Chinese language to accomodate new ideas, the formation of specific nomenclatures and the roles of individual translators, to Chinese attempts to conceptualize the grammar of their own and foreign languages. Table of ContentsIntroduction (intro.pdf)
So Clumsy a Medium ...Chinese Terminologies: On Preconceptions (alleton.pdf) Language Contact and Lexical Innovation (tsou.pdf) Language in the Modernization Process: The Integration of Western Concepts and Terms into Chinese and Japanese in the Nineteenth Century (lippert.pdf) The Politics of Names'Liberty', 'Democracy', 'President': The Translation and Usage of Some Political Terms in Late Qing China (xiong.pdf) Yi, Yang, Xi, Wai and Other Terms: The Transition from 'Barbarian' to 'Foreigner' in Late Imperial China (fang.pdf) The Notions of 'Power' and 'Rights' in Chinese Political Discourse (svarverud.pdf) Negotiating EquivalenceComing to Terms with Logic: The Naturalization of an Occidental Notion in China (kurtz.pdf) An Inquiry into the History of the Chinese Terms
Jiqi (Machine) and Jixie (Machinery) (zhang.pdf) Weights and Forces: The Introduction of Western Mechanics
into Late Qing China (amelung.pdf) On Their Own TermsYan Fu and the Tasks of the Translator (wright.pdf) Natural Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics in the Thought of Tan Sitong: The Concepts of Qi and Yitai (schaefer.pdf) A New Inquiry into the Translation of Chemical Terms by John Fryer and Xu Shou (wang.pdf) Competing NomenclaturesThe Creation of Technical Terms in English-Chinese Dictionaries from the Nineteenth Century (shen.pdf) On Mathematical Terminology: Culture Crossing in Nineteenth-Century China (breard.pdf) The Formation of Botanical Terminology: A Model or a Case Study? (metailie.pdf) Grammars of AlteritySome Reflections on the Sources of the Mashi wentong (peyraube.pdf) Circumnavigating the Unfamiliar: Dao'an (314-385) and Yan Fu (1852-1921) on Western Grammar (lackner.pdf) EpilogueMay Fourth Linguistic Orthodoxy and Rhetoric: Some Informal Comparative Notes (harbsmeier.pdf) Works Cited (biblio.pdf) Index [BACK TO TOP][BACK TO LAST PAGE] URL of this page: http://www.wsc.uni-erlangen.de/newtsave.htm Last modified: July 15, 2001 by Joachim Kurtz |