| Abstrakt: |
Miyajima Daihachi (1867-1943), a Japanese educator of the Chinese language, went to China for study in 1887 and returned to Japan in 1894, after which he established a Chinese language school and published several Chinese textbooks. His Chinese language school, the "Zenrin Syoin," was a key institution of Chinese teaching in Japan before World War II, and his elementary Chinese textbook, the Kyûsyûhen, was called the bible of Chinese learning, because it's easy to leam and close to life. This study researches Daihachi's handwritten notes, now kept at the national Diet Library, Japan, which recorded daily expressions in the Chinese language and conversations with Chinese people. The first part of the paper briefly introduces Daihachi's life and his status in the history of the Chinese language education in Japan by interpreting first-hand historical materials, including his correspondence with his father Miyajima Seiichiro, and his personal documents, which are kept now at the National Archives of Japan. The second part analyzes the content of the notes, including over 400 conversations and numerous corrections. The analysis of the proper nouns and temporal nouns in the conversations are used to identify the writing time of the notes, while analysis of the dialect words and traces of modification and sequences of the sentences shed light on the purpose and method of the notes and establish the patterns and reasons for the modifications. This latter exploration is supported by descriptions of Daihachi's compilation of Chinese textbooks in the memoirs of some Japanese scholars. The third part reveals the relation between the notes and Daihachi's Chinese textbooks by comparing them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
