2000 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Studies on Chinese Characters : Its Everyday Use in China
Project/Area Number |
10045003
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B).
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
中国語・中国文学
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Research Institution | Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) |
Principal Investigator |
YORIFUJI Atsusi Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (80014520)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAWASIMA Ikuo Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (60204715)
USUI Sachikio Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (70185007)
KOBAYASI Tsugio Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Professor, 外国語学部, 教授 (10107831)
MIYAKE Takayuki Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (40259213)
HIRAI Kazuyuki Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Faculty of Foreign Studies Associate Professor, 外国語学部, 助教授 (10199028)
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Project Period (FY) |
1998 – 2000
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Keywords | Chinese Language / Chinese Character / Simplified Chinese Character / Vulgar form / Doublet Characters / Handwriting / Symbol / Everyday Life |
Research Abstract |
In this three-year research project, based on some field works, we investigated actual usages of Chinese Characters in the Chinese' everyday life. Reports were made every year on the research results, and eight booklets were issued in total. In the first year, we gathered lots of references concerned to the subject, and a comprehensive bibliography were issued as a result. In the second year, we focused upon the following three subjects : 1. How and in what situation simplified characters, traditional characters, and vulgar forms are used in the Chinese society at present, and what caused the present irregular usage of Chinese Characters. 2. Historical studies of transition of forms of Chinese Characters. 3. Studies of handwritings. In the third year, we continued to investigate the last two subjects above mentioned, and added two subjects as follows : 4. Chinese Characters as symbols. 5. Handwritings by different sexes and age groups. Through the project, we made clear the following poin
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ts about the five subjects mentioned above : 1. Market economy brought the irregular usage of characters such as mixing the traditional characters or the vulgar forms with the authorized simplified. We have collected such samples of casual forms of characters widely used in everyday life. 2. We accumulated the variety of archives date back to Kangxi reign in Qing dynasty up to 1950s, and clarified that unexpected wide range of the vulgar forms used during the above mentioned period has developed into the present simplified characters. 3&5. Through collecting and analyzing a lot of samples of handwritings, we have succeeded in finding the set patterns of cursive hands which provide great convenience to those engaged in the Sino-Japan exchange. 4. We have collected and photographed the signs and trademarks utilizing the symbolic function and the visual effect inherent to Chinese characters as ideogram, and through their analysis, deepened the understanding on the different approaches of Chinese and the Japanese toward characters originating from each culture. Less
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Research Products
(16 results)