Dr. Timon Gatta
My contribution to the project covers two layers, different yet of course interconnected: first, the “actors” who played a significant role in connecting China and the Western world, especially from a philosophical and linguistical point of view. By analyzing the approach to Western culture by Chinese scholars such as Wang Guowei, Zhang Binglin, Cai Yuanpei (just to name a few), it is possible to understand how the intellectual circles in China reacted to the growing influence of the West, and how the strategies to introduce and adapt Western thought for the Chinese audience changed throughout the first decades of the 20th century. Second, but not less important, is the building of a “network” between China and the West. In particular, it is worth to point out how common tools like dictionaries and vocabularies, which often are taken for granted, were vital for the very creation of a network connecting intellectuals in China, the West and Japan: while many dictionaries written by Protestant missionaries in China were used and in some cases revised by later Chinese or Japanese scholars, they also very much influenced the publishing of later autochthonous vocabularies, both general ones and more technical ones (for example Fan Bingqing’s Philosophical Dictionary of 1926). By taking into account these important key factors, it is clear how there was and there is still today a consistent interconnection between China and the West involving people, ideas, publications, spanning all the way back to the 19th century, if not even before.
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Editor (6. Oktober 2021). Dr. Timon Gatta. Chinawissen vernetzt / Sinologia in rete / Savoirs sur la Chine en réseau. Abgerufen am 13. Juni 2025 von https://sinonet.hypotheses.org/185