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The article analyzes the compilation of bilingual dictionaries, in particular Chinese-foreign language dictionaries, focusing in the second chapter on those created by Robert Morrison (Ma Lixun ???, 1782-1834) and Karl Ernst Georg Hemeling (He Meiling ???, 1878-1925). The third chapter then is centred on the description of Chinese language within the Chinese-foreign language dictionaries of the 19th century, as well as of the equivalence of concepts and words. The following two chapters are finally devoted to the works by Kuang Qizhao ??? (1836-after 1899?) and Yan Fu ?? (1854-1921).

In an essay published on the 11th of August 1967, the well-known writer Yukio Mishima 三島由紀夫 surprisingly yielded a confession about why he had never mentioned the trauma that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had exerted on his psyche – and if we are to take his statement literally, his literature as well. The essay is titled “Hiroshima inside me” (Watashi no naka no hiroshima. In it, Mishima describes the extent of the moral and psychic trauma that this event extolled on him as a youngster.