Analyzing the Standpoint:The Origins of the Term'Historical Geography'from Japan in the Early Twentieth Century
The term'historical geography'in the name of Chinese Historical Geography was introduced to China from the Japanese educational system by the promulgation of the school constitution in the late Qing Dynasty.However,Hou Renzhi's judgment that'the name of historical geography was introduced to China from Japan in the early 20th century'cannot serve as a prerequisite for the establishment of this theory.Comparing the Guimao education system in the late Qing Dynasty with the modern education system in Japan,it can be proven that the term'historical geography'could not have been imported from the latter in early 1904.It only adopted the Japanese translation of the Chinese word'historical geography'corresponding to historical geography.Under the background of the development of Western learning and the exchange of knowledge between China and Japan,it is possible to reconstruct the starting point of narrative logic for Chinese historical geography to start the process of modern knowledge transformation by restoring the knowledge category of Western historical geography at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
historical geographyGuimao School SystemSino-Japanese Communicationknowledge transformation
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