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Turning Songs into Poems and Poems into Songs: Intersections of Literary Sinitic and Vernacular Korean in Chosŏn Literature

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Christina Han
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (2): 211–235.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9326219
Published: 01 November 2021
...Christina Han Abstract This article investigates the dynamic intersections of Literary Sinitic and vernacular Korean and their impact on the innovations in poetry and song in fifteenth- through nineteenth-century Chosŏn Korea. More specifically, it traces the evolution of poetry or song discourse...
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Vernacular Visions in North and South Korea: Interlingual Translations of Unyŏng chŏn (The Tale of Unyŏng) and Ideologies of National Literature

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Daniel Pieper
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 211–237.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773088
Published: 01 November 2023
... proper” and “rewording,” respectively, the article argues that translations of classical Korean fiction from Literary Sinitic into vernacular Korean represented a form of transitional intralingual translation as each nation navigated away from active membership in the Sinographic Cosmopolis and attempted...
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Hybrid Baihua 白話 as a Third Space: East Asian Anticolonial Writing in Modern China

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Chai Lin, Li Dongmei
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (1): 23–56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11056750
Published: 01 May 2024
... with the Kuomintang government, the oppression of the Kuomintang government, and the authority of Literary Sinitic and Baihua. As a form of subversion of and resistance to the authority of Literary Sinitic and Baihua, the hybrid Baihuas thus constructed served as an anticolonial third space. chailin0111...
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Translating Baihua Grammatical Elements in a Fifteenth-Century Korean Buddhist Text: Linguistic and Cultural Notes on the Mongsan hwasang pŏbŏ yangnok ŏnhae

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Itō Hideto 伊藤英人
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 163–190.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773068
Published: 01 November 2023
... Korean Buddhist temples were no longer bilingual Korean-Chinese spaces by early Chosŏn, and Korean Buddhist monks no longer had exposure to spoken Chinese, the Korean translator approached the baihua materials as if they were written in orthodox Literary Sinitic. As a result, he made a number of errors...
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Yi Ok 李鈺 and His Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular)

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Young Kyun Oh
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 239–250.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773098
Published: 01 November 2023
... and literary knowledge, which in turn epitomizes the cultural complexity of late Chosŏn. In its three introductory treatises, as well as in the ensuing sixty-six pentasyllabic Sinitic quatrains written in female voices, Yi Ok illustrates why and how he writes poems about how “heaven and earth and the ten...
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Doctrine beyond Borders: The Sinographic Cosmopolis and Religious Classics in Vietnam from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Centuries

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Trọng Dương Trần
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (1): 1–26.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10336272
Published: 01 May 2023
... of multireligious political community, in which sinographs, Literary Sinitic, and the classics of the Three Teachings created a threefold structure in the political culture of Vietnam. Visits to the Chinese imperial court by delegations from the Great Việt were conceived as pilgrimages to the center of civilization...
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T'aengniji by Yi Chunghwan (1690–1756?): Land and Politics

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Nataliya Chesnokova
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (1): 49–64.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9767191
Published: 01 May 2022
... of the strong influence of social Darwinist ideas. The version by Ch'oe Namsǒn was used for the first translations from hanmun (Literary Sinitic) into modern Korean, thus changing the original meaning of many phrases. On the other hand, a Korea-centered T'aengniji that emphasized the importance of Korean...
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Inscriptional Repertoires and the Problem of Intra- versus Interlingual Translation in Traditional Korea

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Ross King
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 191–210.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773078
Published: 01 November 2023
... was not a simple binary of cosmopolitan orthodox Literary Sinitic versus vernacular Korean in the form of ŏnhae exegeses but was a range of inscriptional styles that included idu and kugyŏl . The ways in which texts were inscribed, reinscribed, and transliterated between these different inscriptional styles...
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Editor's Introduction

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Ross King
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 115–117.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773038
Published: 01 November 2023
... of research identified in that note as offering special interest and promise was translation studies and translation history in the sinographic East Asian region. Specifically, the multifarious interactions and negotiations between Literary Sinitic and East Asian vernacular traditions over the centuries...
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Approaching Classical Chinese Poetry in Early Modern Japan: Intralingual and Interlingual Translation Strategies in Rikunyo's Remarks on Poetry

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Matthew Fraleigh
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 137–162.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773058
Published: 01 November 2023
... with Literary Sinitic)? “Reading by gloss” or “vernacular reading” 訓讀 (Jp. kundoku ), a semisystematized process by which a text in Literary Sinitic can be construed through the Japanese vernacular, according to Japanese syntax and pronunciation, was clearly one central means by which the majority of Japanese...
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Kangaku and the State: Colonial Collaboration between Korean and Japanese Traditional Sinologists

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Yongbeom Lee (Yi Yongbŏm)
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (2): 235–256.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11361761
Published: 01 November 2024
.... Of course, this difference in quantity cannot be said to be absolute. Traditionally, poetry and literary exchanges were mainly distributed in personal relationships rather than public spaces, so it is difficult to accurately determine the total amount. There is also a risk that the small number of Sinitic...
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An Chunggŭn: His Life and Thought in His Own Words

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Michael Finch
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (1): 132–134.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9767242
Published: 01 May 2022
...Michael Finch As in chapter 1, “The History of An Ŭngch'il,” chapter 6, “On Peace in the East,” also contains the original Literary Sinitic text interspersed above the English translation. This chapter is the clearest explanation, albeit unfinished before his death, of An's own worldview...
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Science Education for Girls in Korea, 1886–1910

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Janet Yoon-sun Lee
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (2): 213–234.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11361752
Published: 01 November 2024
...) Ewha Haktang (Ewha Girls’ School) Mary F. Scranton Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South 1886 Seoul Sŏnggyŏng (Bible), Hanmun (Literary Sinitic), susin (morals), chiri (geography), yŏksa pon'guk (Korean history), sansul (arithmetic), Yŏngŏ (English...
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The Prose of Our Land: Ban Kōkei, Translation, and National Language Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Japan

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Rebekah Clements
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 119–136.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10773048
Published: 01 November 2023
... ( Youxian ku 游仙窟, ca. seventh century). Both were written in forms of Literary Sinitic and, if read according to the conventions of Japanese kundoku , their vocabulary would be pronounced as Sino-Japanese compounds: example 1 would be read as rekiun , 2 as bunpu , and 3 as shisoku . Kōkei is suggesting...
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Education, Language, and the Intellectual Underpinnings of Modern Korea, 1875–1945

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Dolf-Alexander Neuhaus
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2025) 25 (1): 125–128.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11631585
Published: 01 May 2025
... intensified by the drive to preserve Korea's national spirit and foster a distinct ethnic identity. The next chapter, written by W. Scott Wells, delves into the precolonial debate over the gradual transition from Literary Sinitic to the Korean vernacular script by analyzing textbooks authored by scholar...
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Mid-Tang Exchange Poetry, the Kingdom of Parhae, and the Reception of Bai Juyi in Early Heian Japan, Part 1: Parhae Envoys and the Yuan-Bai Style of Exchange Poetry

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Dario Minguzzi
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (2): 257–284.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11361770
Published: 01 November 2024
... In early ninth-century Japan, harmonizing (和) poetry was a particularly significant genre and well represented in extant sources. 18 For Sinitic poetry, all three literary collections that were compiled in rapid sequence during the reigns of Emperors Saga 嵯峨 (r. 809–23) and Junna 淳和 (r. 823–33...
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The Power of Sound: Rethinking the Invention of the Korean Vernacular Script

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Giovanni Volpe
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2025) 25 (1): 51–74.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11631558
Published: 01 May 2025
... thus faced the challenge of reconciling the seemingly conflicting purposes assigned to the newly created script. Studies focusing on the script's vernacular dimension highlight how it improved vernacular literature by moving beyond the reliance on Literary Sinitic and less efficient vernacular...
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Mid-Tang Exchange Poetry, the Kingdom of Parhae, and the Reception of Bai Juyi in Early Heian Japan, Part 2: The Yuan-Bai Corpus and the Rise of Heian Sinitic Poetry

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Dario Minguzzi
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2025) 25 (1): 33–50.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11631549
Published: 01 May 2025
... in the middle and late Heian period, encompassing the realms of both Sinitic and vernacular literature. However, by tracing the point of origin of such multifarious Bai Juyi–based literary culture to the emergence of a systematic outlet for the performance of exchange poetry in the rhyme-matching Yuan-Bai style...
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The “Zhenzheng lun” by Xuanyi: A Buddhist Apologetic Scripture of Tang China

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Richard D. McBride, II
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (2): 264–266.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9326259
Published: 01 November 2021
... reproduces the Literary Sinitic text, with lines in parallel prose arranged so that the reader can see the relationships. The right column provides the English translation of the text, with footnotes found at the bottom of the page. Jülch's translation comprises a brief introduction (1–16...
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Sinicizing European Languages: Lexicographical and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Nineteenth-Century China

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Yuqing Liu
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (2): 135–158.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10040867
Published: 01 November 2022
... earlier. 19 Sinographic Cosmopolis here means “the traditional region in East Asia that was bound by its commitment to literary Sinitic (classical Chinese) and to sinographs (Chinese characters)” ( King 2014: 2 ). 18 Zhou Zhenhe (2013: 7) infers that pidgin English was known among...
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