kangaku
Sign in to savewas the pre-modern Japanese study of China. Kangaku was the counterpart of kokugaku and Yōgaku or Rangaku. Scholars of kangaku are called kangakusha ().
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- Instance of
- academic discipline
- Subclass of
- sinology
- Named after
- Han dynasty
- Country
- Japan
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- language used
- kanbun
- time period
- Edo period
- is the study of
- Chinese culture
- opposite of
- rangaku
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was the pre-modern Japanese study of China. Kangaku was the counterpart of kokugaku and Yōgaku or Rangaku. Scholars of kangaku are called kangakusha ().
== Kangaku and sinology == In modern Japan, sinology (Chugokugaku, 中国学, or formerly Shinagaku, 支那學) refers to Western and modern Chinese studies, whereas kangaku refers to traditional or pre-modern studies.
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