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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
... license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Sinitic poetry intralingual translation interlingual translation glossing linguistic consciousness Residents of the Japanese archipelago have been avid readers of classical Chinese texts in a great many genres from the very origins of literacy down to the present...
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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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Figure 1. Transmission of the classics of the Three Teachings into Vietnam.

Transmission of the classics of the Three Teachings into Vietnam.

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in Doctrine beyond Borders: The Sinographic Cosmopolis and Religious Classics in Vietnam from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Centuries > Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
Published: 01 May 2023
Figure 1. Transmission of the classics of the Three Teachings into Vietnam. More
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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
...Daniel Pieper Abstract This article focuses on two translations of The Tale of Unyŏng (Unyŏng chŏn 雲英傳, early seventeenth century) into vernacular Korean in South Korea (1960) and North Korea (1966). Looking beyond the classical paradigm of interlingual and intralingual translation as “translation...
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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
... prose writing. This article locates Kōkei's promotion of language reform within the context of contemporaneous developments in translation from classical into vernacular Japanese and explains the role of translation in Kōkei's attempts to develop Japanese prose writing nearly one hundred years before...
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Confucius as a Religious Figure in Ku Hung-Ming's Translation of the Lunyu ( Analects )

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Lin Zhang
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2025) 25 (1): 75–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11631567
Published: 01 May 2025
...Lin Zhang [email protected] Copyright © 2025 Lin Zhang 2025 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Confucius's religiosity has been a point of contestation since Confucian classics were introduced...
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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
..., and promotion of the most valuable Korean classics and important writings ( Gur'eva 2011: 232 ). The first books published by the Chosŏn Kwangmunhoe were a chronicle of the early history of Korea, Tongguk t'onggam 東國通鑑, and a Beijing travelogue, Yŏrha ilgi 熱河日記. The first geographical classic...
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Localism of Daoxue in North China during the Yuan Dynasty: A Case Study of An Xi (1270–1311)

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Khee Heong Koh
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (2): 159–182.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10040877
Published: 01 November 2022
... in the examination system lasted centuries, but it was not uncontested. Jin rulers continued to emphasize poetry and rhymed prose on examinations from 1115 to 1150. Although the classical essay was restored to parity with poetry and rhymed prose, the latter's importance continued ( Elman 2000: 5–29 ). Han literati...
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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
... was reprimanded by King Chŏngjo. As a student selected into the State Confucian Academy (Sŏnggyun'gwan 成均館), he was taken to task by the king for writing in a non-classical style from Qing China (1644–1911), which the king himself labeled p'aegwan sop'um (稗官小品 “fiction and vignettes”). This incident in which...
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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
...) explains, “Alice's reply in effect sums up a whole orthodox tradition of thinking about translation. This tradition assumes that we cannot translate until we have identified two languages, one to translate from and one to translate into.” Harris goes on to note that Jakobson's classic formulation “makes...
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On Suwenxue 俗文學 and Its Status under Different Literary Views

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Tan Jing 譚靜, Bao Xiangfei 包向飛
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (1): 103–121.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11056777
Published: 01 May 2024
... (worship of the ancient classics). “Worshipping the ancient” has a long history in Chinese thought. It is reflected not only in The Analects ( Lunyu 論語) but also in the works of the Qing literatus Ye Dehui 葉德輝 (1864–1927) (Zhang Jingping 2011; Zhou Yan 2020). In Chinese literary criticism, Liu Xie's...
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Zhen 眞 as the Ideal of Landscape Painting in Bifaji 筆法記

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Yoewool Kang
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (1): 27–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9767181
Published: 01 May 2022
... as the primal vital energy or force is the central concern of this sentence. This nature of qi enables knowing through an aesthetic experience beyond conceptual thinking. See Liu 1975: 31 ; Chŏng 1997: 134 . References Ames, Roger T. 1985 . “ The Common Ground of Self-Cultivation in Classical...
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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
... for reading Confucian classics and enhancing diplomatic communication with China. This ultimately legitimized Chosŏn as a Confucian state and a genuine member of the Ming imperial order. Moreover, the script had a crucial role in enabling the oral performance and auditory reception of court-sponsored glossed...
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Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

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Shengyu Wang
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (1): 57–80.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11056759
Published: 01 May 2024
... that both of their series were pointedly written in the vein of the Chinese classical tale. 5 As this essay will show, however, neither writer modeled his stories entirely on the Liaozhai tales; instead, both incorporated narrative techniques and prose styles that, at the time, were newly developed...
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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
... the prestige of Literary Sinitic. The new script was at first put into use in a series of translation projects. Sejong sponsored the translation of instructional language texts, Confucian classics, and other didactic texts for women, youths, and children with the goal of promulgating the values of an ideal...
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Revisiting the Civil Examinations in the Qing Dynasty: Popularization and Social Transitions

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Zhang Muhui, Kim Kyungho
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (1): 1–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11056741
Published: 01 May 2024
... exams in the Qing led to the “unintended consequence” of fostering classically literate men who used these linguistic and writing skills for nonofficial purposes ( Elman 2014 : 215). Scholars have identified two categories of education during the Qing: elite education aiming at exam success and official...
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Play a Trick and Get a Queen: “Divine Tricksters” in Ancient Korea (and Beyond)

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Maurizio Riotto
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (2): 161–189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9326199
Published: 01 November 2021
..., and it is known that he remained a transgressive divinity in the pantheon of the classical world. The social chaos represented by him and his followers (Silenus, the satyrs, and, precisely, the κόβαλοι) could be the consequence of the ancient conflict between Indo-European and Mediterranean cultural models (see...
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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
... Association (now the Institute for the Translation of Korean Classics) was established in 1965 and continues to this day. Over the past century, hanhak in Korea and kangaku in Japan have undergone recurrent self-renewal through colonization, modernization, the Cold War, and Westernization, but have...
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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
... the spectrum of written languages used in Japan in his day and involved intralingual translation from classical and written forms of Japanese, as well as translation from Literary Sinitic.” In the second Japan article, Matthew Fraleigh examines Remarks on Poetry from Makuzugahara ( Katsugen shiwa 葛原詩話, 1787...
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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
... drawn from passages in the Confucian classics or from texts included in the kidendō educational curriculum at the Bureau of High Education, such as the Wen Xuan 文選 (Selections of refined literature). Only in the second half of the ninth century do we observe a gradual shift toward topic lines...
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