[←877 ]
TN: War Memoirs.
[←878 ]
TN: Salvation, 1944–46.
[←879 ]
TN: Nuremberg — The Victor’s Tribunal.
[←880 ]
TN: The Birth of German National Socialism.
[←881 ]
TN: The Unpublished Words of Hitler.
[←882 ]
TN: Dietrich Eckart — A Legacy.
[←883 ]
TN: Towards Hitler. The ‘Völkisch’ Publicist Dietrich Eckart.
[←884 ]
TN: La voie de l’éternité, or ‘The Path of Eternity’, seems to be the French title of Hanayama’s Way of Deliverance.
[←885 ]
TN: Nulla poena — or Nullum crimen — sine lege is Latin for ‘There is no penalty, or crime, without a law’. It is a legal principle that states that one cannot be punished for doing something that was not, at the time of one’s actions, prohibited by law.
[←886 ]
TN: The Treaty of Portsmouth marked the official end of the 1904–1905 Russian-Japanese War. It was signed on 5th September, 1905.
[←887 ]
TN: This seems to be a reference to the Root–Takahira Agreement between the United States and the Empire of Japan. Signed on 30th November, 1908, the agreement comprised an official recognition of the territorial status quo as of November 1908, an affirmation of the independence and territorial integrity of China, the maintenance of free trade and equal commercial opportunities, the Japanese recognition of the American annexation of the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Philippines and the American recognition of Japan’s position in northeast China.
[←888 ]
TN: A Japanese poem of seventeen syllables, in three lines of five, seven, and five.
[←889 ]
TN: A Japanese poem in thirty-one syllables, divided into five lines of five, seven, five, seven and seven.
[←890 ]
TN: Born in India, Joseph Rudyard Kipling (30th December, 1865–18th January, 1936) was an English journalist, short-story author, poet, and novelist. He was, in fact, one of the most popular writers in the British Empire, in both prose and verse, in the late-19th and early-20th centuries.
[←891 ]
TN: Japan and the Japanese.
[←892 ]
TN: Karl Ernst Haushofer (27th August, 1869–10th March, 1946) was a German general, geographer and politician. Through his student Rudolf Hess, Haushofer’s ideas impacted the development of Adolf Hitler’s expansionist strategies, although Haushofer himself rejected any direct influence on the Nazi regime.
[←893 ]
TN: Madame Chrysanthème is a novel by Pierre Loti, presented as the autobiographical journal of a naval officer temporarily married to a Japanese woman while stationed in Nagasaki, Japan. It has been considered a crucial text in shaping western attitudes toward Japan at the turn of the 20th century.
[←894 ]
TN: Furor Teutonicus (‘Teutonic Fury’) is a Latin phrase referring to the proverbial ferocity of the Teutones or, more generally, the Germanic tribes of the Roman Empire period.
[←895 ]
TN: Friendliness.
[←896 ]
TN: George-Alexis Montadon (19th April, 1879–3rd or 30th August, 1944) was a Swiss-French doctor, anthropologist and explorer known for his racialist and antisemitic views and theories.
[←897 ]
TN: The Ainu Civilisation and the Arctic Cultures.
[←898 ]
TN: Race and Races.
[←899 ]
TN: Percival Lawrence Lowell (13th March, 1855–12th November, 1916) was an American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomer who fueled speculation that there were canals on Mars.
[←900 ]
TN: ‘Matsushita Electric’ is the former name of today’s Panasonic Corporation.
[←901 ]
TN: Hubert Brochier (1923–2017) was a French economist.
[←902 ]
TN: The Japanese Economic Miracle.
[←903 ]
TN: Alain de Benoist uses the word ‘Ibashi’ to refer to a Japanese household, but I have found no sources that would confirm this usage. The word seems to have a different meaning and is mostly rendered in English as ‘tongs’. ‘Ibasho’, by contrast, means ‘the place where one belongs’.
[←904 ]
TN: Born on 18th June, 1922, Donald Lawrence Keene is an American-born Japanese scholar, historian, teacher, writer and translator of Japanese literature.
[←905 ]
TN: Tokugawa Ieyasu (30th January, 1543–1st June, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled the country from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
[←906 ]
TN: A bonze can be defined as a Japanese or Chinese Buddhist religious teacher. Nichiren (16th February, 1222–13th October, 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest who founded Nichiren Buddhism, a branch school of Mahayana Buddhism. He remains, to this day, a controversial figure among scholars, who regard him as either a fervent nationalist or a social reformer with a transnational religious vision.
[←907 ]
TN: Louis Auguste Paul Rougier (10th April, 1889–14th October, 1982) was a French philosopher who made numerous significant contributions to epistemology, the philosophy of science, political philosophy and the history of Christianity.
[←908 ]
TN: The Ingeniousness of the West.
[←909 ]
TN: Francis Xavier, S.J. (7th April, 1506–3rd December, 1552), was a Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic missionary and a co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He was also the first Christian missionary to travel to Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas.
[←910 ]
TN: In Japan and the Far East.
[←911 ]
TN: Rudolf Otto (25th September, 1869–6th March, 1937) was an eminent German Lutheran theologian, philosopher, and comparative religionist. He is regarded as one of the most influential scholars of religion in the early-20th century and is best known for his concept of the numinous, a profound emotional experience he argued was at the heart of the world’s religions. His most famous work, The Idea of the Holy, was first published in German in 1917 as Das Heilige — Über das Irrationale in der Idee des Göttlichen und sein Verhältnis zum Rationalen.
[←912 ]
TN: The Feeling of Transcendence.
[←913 ]
TN: Zhuang Zhu was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BC, during the Warring States period, which corresponded to the peak of Chinese philosophy, i.e. the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing — either in part or in whole — a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, considered one of the essential texts of Taoism.
[←914 ]
TN: Lao Tzu was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer who is regarded as a deity in religious Taoism and traditional Chinese religions. The founder of philosophical Taoism, he is believed to have authored the Tao Te Ching.
[←915 ]
TN: Marcel Granet (29th February, 1884–25th November. 1940) was a French sociologist, ethnologist and sinologist. As a follower of Émile Durkheim and Édouard Chavannes, Granet was one of the first to bring sociological methods to the study of China.
[←916 ]
TN: Philolaus (c. 470 BC — c. 385 BC) was a Greek Pythagorean and pre-Socratic philosopher who argued that what lies at the very foundation of everything is the part played by the limiting and the limitless, which combine together in harmony. Philolaus is also credited with having been the first to advocate the theory that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe.
[←917 ]
TN: Japan: Monster or Model?
[←918 ]
TN: When Japan Meets the West.
[←919 ]
TN: Japan — The Third Great One.
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sp; [←920 ]
TN: Lin Biao (5th December, 1907–13th September, 1971) was a marshal of the People’s Republic of China who was pivotal in the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War, especially in Northeast China. His death is a subject of great controversy and intense speculation.
[←921 ]
TN: Chiang Kai-Shek (31st October, 1887–5th April, 1975) was a politician and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975, first in mainland China and then in exile in Taiwan.
[←922 ]
TN: The Nordic Race Among the Indo-Europeans of Asia.
[←923 ]
TN: Indo-Europeanism in Faraway China? Confucius and his doctrine of the Noble Man.
[←924 ]
TN: Born in 1922, Donald Daniel Leslie is a sinologist.
[←925 ]
TN: Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham (9th December, 1900–24th March, 1995) was a British biochemist, historian and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology.
[←926 ]
TN: Literally ‘Chinese Science and the West. The Great Assaying’, this publication is, it would seem, not a translation of any specific work by Needham, despite the fact that he has penned more than one book bearing the words ‘Chinese Science’ in its title. This French publication is actually a compendium that has been compiled using some of Needham’s most influential writings.
[←927 ]
TN: René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble (26th January, 1909–7th January, 2002) was a French essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.
[←928 ]
TN: Shang Yang or Wei Yang Gongsun (c. 390 BC–338 BC) was a statesman and reformer of the State of Qin during the Warring States period of ancient China. His policies laid the administrative and political foundations that would enable Qin to conquer all of China, uniting the country for the first time and ushering in the Qin dynasty. He and his followers contributed to the Book of Lord Shang, a foundational work for the development of Chinese Legalism.
[←929 ]
TN: According to legend, Wen Tzu was a follower of Lao Tzu who wrote additional sayings and proverbs in a second book beyond the Tao Te Ching. Although his identity has never been confirmed nor validated, he is considered to have played a pivotal role int the birth of legalism.
[←930 ]
TN: Han Fei (c. 280 BC–233 BC), also known as Han Fei Zi, was a Chinese philosopher of the Warring States period. He is often regarded as the greatest representative of Chinese Legalism for his eponymous work the Han Feizi, a work which synthesised the methods of his predecessors.
[←931 ]
TN: The ‘Book of Music’ was a Confucian classic text lost by the time of the Han dynasty. It is sometimes referred to as the ‘Sixth Classic’ and is thought to have been crucial in the traditional interpretations of the Book of Songs/Poetry.
[←932 ]
TN: François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, more commonly known as François Fénelon (6th August, 1651–7th January, 1715), was a French Roman Catholic archbishop, theologian, poet and author.
[←933 ]
TN: Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) was an English-born author, known principally for works of biography and history focusing on prominent historical figures such as Leonardo, Hitler, Stalin, Marx, Lenin, Mao Zedong and Gandhi.
[←934 ]
TN: The Life, Work and Doctrine of Confucius.
[←935 ]
TN: Confucius and Chinese Humanism.
[←936 ]
TN: Confucianism.
[←937 ]
TN: The Chinese Religion.
[←938 ]
TN: Taoism and Chinese Religions.
[←939 ]
TN: Pierre Ryckmans (28th September, 1935–11th August, 2014), who also went by the pen-name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian author, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor.
[←940 ]
TN: Broken Images.
[←941 ]
TN: The Long March.
[←942 ]
TN: The Construction of Socialism in China.
[←943 ]
TN: Daily Life in Revolutionary China is the book’s official English title.
[←944 ]
TN: Millions of Chinese People Without Constraint.
[←945 ]
TN: Born on 25th February, 1942, Alain-Gérard Slama is a French essayist, journalist and historian.
[←946 ]
TN: Jacques Léon Rueff (23rd August, 1896–23rd April, 1978) was a French economist and advisor to the French government.
[←947 ]
TN: Han Suyin was the pen name of Elizabeth Comber (12th September, 1917–2nd November, 2012), born Rosalie Matilda Kuanghu Chou. A Chinese-born Eurasian, she was a physician and a writer of English and French books on modern China, in addition to authoring both novels set in East and Southeast Asia and autobiographical memoirs that covered the span of modern China.
[←948 ]
TN: Jacques Chaban-Delmas (7th March, 1915–10th November, 2000) was a French Gaullist politician who served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972.
[←949 ]
TN: National School of Administration.
[←950 ]
TN: The ‘Union for the Defence of the Republic’ (French: Union pour la défense de la République), which was renamed ‘Union of Democrats for the Republic’ (French: Union des Démocrates pour la République) after 1968, was a Gaullist political party whose existence spanned from 1968 to 1976.
[←951 ]
TN: The World Shall Tremble… When China Awakens!
[←952 ]
TN: Edgar Parks Snow (17th July, 1905–15th February, 1972) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist Revolution. He was the first western journalist to give a full account of the history of the Chinese Communist Party following the Long March and the first one to interview many of its leaders, including Mao Zedong. He is best known for his book, Red Star Over China (1937), an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s.
[←953 ]
TN: Edgar Faure (18th August, 1908–30th March, 1988) was a French politician, essayist, historian, and memoirist.
[←954 ]
TN: Are We Truly Familiar with China?
[←955 ]
TN: Claude Bernard (12th July, 1813–10th February, 1878) was a French physiologist. Historian I. Bernard Cohen of Harvard University called Bernard ‘one of the greatest of all men of science’.
[←956 ]
TN: Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, Viscount de Tocqueville (29th July, 1805–16th April, 1859) was a French diplomat, political scientist and historian. He is most famous for his works entitled Democracy in America (in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
[←957 ]
TN: Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (18th March, 1790–25th September, 1857) was a French aristocrat and author who is most famous for his travel writing, especially his account of the time he spent in Russia entitled La Russie.
[←958 ]
TN: Chinese Shadows.
[←959 ]
TN: Although the title can be literally translated as ‘Two Years Later, in China’, the French translation seems to have rendered it as ‘L’hypothèse chinoise’, meaning ‘The Chinese Hypothesis’.
[←960 ]
TN: The Federalist Twentieth Century.
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