Stories, Plays & Essays
Compromise and Suspicion: Essays on the Chinese Character
支那人の妥協性と猜疑心 ほか四篇
Kuwabara Jitsuzō · 1913–1926 · translated by Valentin Sarić
Why did the Chinese fight to the death to keep their hair, and then fight again to keep their queues? Why did the eunuchs survive two thousand years of warnings? Kuwabara Jitsuzō (1871-1931), a founder of Japanese sinology, answers from the Chinese histories in five essays of 1913-1926.
Complete and unabridged, with a translator's note on the essays' period views.
114pages
1913–1926first published
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