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An Outline of the Naitō Hypothesis and its Effects on Japanese Studies of China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

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As was true of many other fields of learning in Japan, Chinese studies entered a new stage of development with the Meiji era. The valuable tradition of kangaku (“Chinese learning” of the Tokugawa period) was affected and, to a degree, replaced, by Western scientific methods of inquiry.

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Special Number on Chinese History and Society
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1955

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5 In this essay Naitō concluded that the Chinese drive towards democracy and the Chinese love of peace would lead to a rejection of militarism and dictatorship and result in the choice of a republican form of government. The essay “Monarchy or republic?” (“Kunshusei ka kyōwasei ka?”) appeared in Naitō's Shinaron (1914)Google Scholar, and can be found in Naitō Kenkichi ed., Shinaron (1938), 853Google Scholar, a volume which contains the material in his father's Shinaron, Shin Shinaron (1924)Google Scholar, and Kindai Shina no bunka seikatsu.

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