A Study of the Education Terminology in A Brief Study of German Schools and Its Influence on Japanese

A Brief Study of German Schools, the first treatise on modern western education in China after the Opium War, is an important work in the history of educational interaction between China and Japan. The first edition was published in 1873. It was introduced into Japan in 1874, and influenced its educational world during the Meiji era. Here is a question that does it have an impact on Japanese education terms? For answering this question, we studied the using and the creation of educational terminologies in A Brief Study of German Schools and the possibility of its influence on Japanese, by comparing with the Japanese education terms in the 1870s, through the angle of the Sino-Japanese interaction in terminology