Research on the History of Chinese Character Communication in East Asia: Japanese Volume (two Volumes)
by Ma Yingjie
About This Novel
This book closely follows the historical context of the spread of Chinese characters in Japan, and comprehensively and systematically sorts out and studies the spread and use of Chinese characters in Japan through statistical analysis of the spread and evolution of Chinese characters in various eras in Japan, as well as describing changes in the number, frequency, variants, and form-meaning relationships of Japanese Chinese characters over time. It is the first academic monograph on the study of the spread of overseas Chinese characters by country, and has important practical significance to fill the academic gap. This book has four major chapters and seven appendices. It takes the introduction, popularization, inheritance and improvement as clues, takes ancient dictionaries as the main context, and combines rare documents such as Japanese epigraphy, wooden slips, and ancient documents to carefully describe the spread, acceptance, and development of Chinese characters in Japan in various historical periods from aspects such as word size, variant characters, and changes in the relationship between form and meaning. It uses the research methods of the development history of Chinese characters to study the history of the spread of Chinese characters in Japan. In addition, the related Chinese character collections formed under the influence of Japan's modern Chinese character policy, as well as the influence of the Meiji era calligraphy books on the character collections, are also new contents studied in this book, making this book a general history of Japanese Chinese characters. It is worth mentioning that the materials involved in the appendix of this book also have very high academic value and application value, and have certain guiding significance for related topic research.
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