Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945 by Rapley, Ian

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn...
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Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945 by Rapley, Ian

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945

Dhs. 586.53

Green Star Japan: Esperanto and the International Language Question, 1880-1945

Dhs. 586.53
Author: Ian Rapley
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

During the first half of the twentieth century, a wide range of the Japanese populace was drawn to the possibilities offered by the proposed language known as Esperanto. Created in the nineteenth century by a European, L. L. Zamenhof, Esperanto seemed an unlikely candidate for Japanese interest, but to its advocates it was a potential solution to the international language problem: the question of how to effectively communicate across linguistic and national borders. Using the history of Japanese Esperanto up to the end of the Second World War, Ian Rapley argues that scholars of modern Asia should pay serious attention to both Esperanto and the international language problem.

One key aspect of Japan's modernization was its growing contact with the wider world, not just with the West but with countries across the globe. The increasingly complex networks of these transnational interactions involved trade, diplomacy, and intellectual flows; each contact required the identification of some common medium of communication. Esperanto was designed to be as easy to learn as possible, with a simple grammar and system of word formation, and none of the idiosyncrasies and irregularities that accumulate over time in unplanned national or regional languages. This appealed to many Japanese who discovered that to be modern meant being a student of one or more foreign languages.

Japanese Esperantists were active at the League of Nations, in the Soviet Union, and in villages across Japan. They wrote essays and letters, traveled internationally, built friendships, taught classes, and made radio broadcasts. Closely examining the efforts to spread a language designed to bring peoples of the world together, Green Star Japan offers a new approach to understanding Japan's global modernity. This book will interest scholars and students of modern Japanese and East Asian history, and especially within the vibrant fields of transnational/global history and the history of language.

Author: Ian Rapley
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: 10/31/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780824897543

About the Author
Ian Rapley is a senior lecturer of East Asian history in the history department of Cardiff University, UK.

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