侨词来归与近代中日文化互动--以"卫生""物理""小说"为例

在中、西、日文化互动过程中,有一批汉字术语经历了从中国古典词-传输日本-日本借以对译西洋概念,使其内涵发生近代转换—转换后的该汉字术语又传输回中国。此种"侨词来归",正是中日文化面对西方文化东渐而发生互动的一种表现形态。本文以"卫生"、"物理"、"小说"为例,阐述此一论题。

The Return of Overseas Chinese Words and the Sino-Japanese Cultural Interaction in Modern Times

In the process of the Sino-Western-Japanese cultural interaction, a train of Chinese technical terms were transmitted into Japan, where they borrowed to translate western concepts and thus experienced modern translation in connotation, and were then again conveyed back to China. This return of oversea Chinese words is just emblematic of the Sino-Japanese cultural interaction provoked by the eastward permeation of western culture. This article takes hygiene, physics, novel for instances to expound this argument.