New terms for new ideas : Western knowledge and lexical change in Late Imperial China / edited by Michael Lackner, Iwo Amelung and Joachim Kurtz.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-447) and index.
Contents: So Clumsy a Medium ...Chinese Terminologies: On Preconceptions / Viviane Alleton -- Language Contact and Lexical Innovation / Benjamin K. T'sou -- Language in the Modernization Process: The Integration of Western Concepts and Terms into Chinese and Japanese in the Nineteenth Century / Wolfgang Lippert -- The Politics of Names: 'Liberty', 'Democracy', 'President': The Translation and Usage of Some Political Terms in Late Qing China / Xiong Yuezhi -- Yi, Yang, Xi, Wai and Other Terms: The Transition from 'Barbarian' to 'Foreigner' in Late Imperial China / Fang Weigui -- The Notions of 'Power' and 'Rights' in Chinese Political Discourse / Rune Svarverud -- Negotiating Equivalence: Coming to Terms with Logic: The Naturalization of an Occidental Notion in China / Joachim Kurtz -- An Inquiry into the History of the Chinese Terms Jiqi (Machine) and Jixie (Machinery) / Zhang Baichun -- Weights and Forces: The Introduction of Western Mechanics into Late Qing China / Iwo Amelung -- On Their Own Terms: Yan Fu and the Tasks of the Translator / David Wright -- Natural Philosophy, Physics and Metaphysics in the Thought of Tan Sitong: The Concepts of Qi and Yitai / Ingo Schäfer -- A New Inquiry into the Translation of Chemical Terms by John Fryer and Xu Shou / Wang Yangzong -- Competing Nomenclatures: The Creation of Technical Terms in English-Chinese Dictionaries from the Nineteenth Century / Shen Guowei -- On Mathematical Terminology: Culture Crossing in Nineteenth-Century China / Andrea Bréard -- The Formation of Botanical Terminology: A Model or a Case Study? / Georges Métailié -- Grammars of Alterity: Some Reflections on the Sources of the Mashi wentong / Alain Peyraube -- Circumnavigating the Unfamiliar: Dao'an (314-385) and Yan Fu (1852-1921) on Western Grammar / Michael Lackner – Epilogue: May Fourth Linguistic Orthodoxy and Rhetoric: Some Informal Comparative Notes / Christoph Harbsmeier.

This volume is about the lasting impact of new (Western) notions on the 19th and early 20th century Chinese language; their invention, spread and standardization. Reaching beyond the mere cataloguing of the thousands of lexical innovations in this period of change, the essays explore the multiple ways in which initially alien notions were naturalized in Chinese scientific and political discourse.
Topics examined range from preconceptions about the capacity of the Chinese language to accommodate foreign ideas, the formation of specific nomenclatures and the roles of individual translators, to Chinese and European attempts at coming to terms with each other’s grammar.
By systematically analysing and assessing the lexical adaptation of Western notions in Chinese contexts, the book will serve as a valuable reference work for all those interested in the historical semantics of modern China.

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