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Essays on Writing and Language in Honor - Sino-Platonic Papers

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Sirw-Plat<strong>on</strong>ic <strong>Papers</strong>, 27 (August 3 1, 199 1)<br />

is a detail. The important political fact rema<strong>in</strong>s that Wu was successful <strong>in</strong> br<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

Japanese c<strong>on</strong>cept of nati<strong>on</strong>al language to Ch<strong>in</strong>a.<br />

The ir<strong>on</strong>y is that the term, as well as most other "round-trip words," spread to Ch<strong>in</strong>a<br />

<strong>on</strong>ly after Japan had asserted its cultural <strong>in</strong>dependence. It was a sign of a cultural shift <strong>in</strong> East<br />

Asia. Ch<strong>in</strong>a's lead<strong>in</strong>g role <strong>in</strong> the area had come to an end<br />

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