Series Editors' Foreword; Introduction: Seven Japanese Studies on the Modern Sino-Japanese Lexicon; Chapter 1 The Creation of the Term Kojin (Individual); Chapter 2 Religion (shūkyō) and Freedom (jiyū); Chapter 3 The Formation of the Term Shakai (Society); Chapter 4 Liberty-Freedom: Yanagita Kunio's Resistance; Chapter 5 The Concept of "Rights"; Chapter 6 Terminology Surrounding the "Tripartite Separation of Powers"; Chapter 7 Dreams of "Science" and "Truth"; Index
Summary
The seven essays that comprise this volume address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms in modern Chinese and Japanese came into being, how they outdistanced all competitors, and the persons and texts involved in the process