Yoshimi Takeuchi

Japanese: 竹内好 - たけうちよしみ

Born: October 2, 1910, Usuda, Nagano
[Died] March 3, 1977. Tokyo Chinese literature scholar. Graduated from the Department of Chinese Literature at the University of Tokyo in 1934. In the same year, he formed the Chinese Literature Research Society with Takeda Taijun and Okazaki Toshio, rejecting traditional Chinese studies and sinology, and edited the journal Chinese Literature Monthly (later Chinese Literature). He declared his intention not to cooperate with the first Greater East Asia Writers Conference, disbanded the society in 1943, wrote Lu Xun (1944), and was called up as a private soldier. After being discharged from the military in 1946, he became an independent critic and engaged in a wide range of critical activities, including criticizing Japan's "modernity" by comparing it with Chinese literature, advocating "national literature," and discussing contemporary China. In 1953, he became a professor at the Faculty of Humanities at Tokyo Metropolitan University, but resigned in protest of the 1960 Diet vote on the Japan-US Security Treaty. In 1963, he founded the China Society and launched the magazine China, which published essays such as To Know China. In addition to translations of Lu Xun's works, such as Selected Works of Lu Xun (1965, co-translated) and Collected Works of Lu Xun (6 volumes, 1976-78), he also published Takeuchi's Collected Essays (3 volumes, 1966) and Between Japan and China (1973).

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Japanese:

[生]1910.10.2. 長野，臼田
[没]1977.3.3. 東京
中国文学者。 1934年東京大学支那文学科卒業。同年，武田泰淳，岡崎俊夫らと，旧来の漢学，支那学を否定して「中国文学研究会」を結成，機関誌『中国文学月報』 (のち『中国文学』) の編集にあたった。第1回大東亜文学者会議に際し非協力を表明して 1943年同研究会を解散，『魯迅』 (1944) を書き上げ一兵卒として応召。 1946年復員後は，在野の評論家として，中国文学との対比による日本の「近代」批判，「国民文学」の提唱，現代中国論など幅広い評論活動を行なった。 1953年東京都立大学人文学部教授となり，1960年日米安全保障条約の国会強行採決に抗議して辞職。 1963年「中国の会」を発足させ，雑誌『中国』を創刊，『中国を知るために』などのエッセーを載せた。『魯迅選集』 (1965，共訳) ，『魯迅文集』 (6巻，1976～78) など魯迅作品の翻訳のほか，『竹内好評論集』 (3巻，1966) ，『日本と中国のあいだ』 (1973) などがある。

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