1-16 of 16

Search Results for language reform

Save search
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article

The Prose of Our Land: Ban Kōkei, Translation, and National Language Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Japan

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...
View articletitled, The Prose of Our Land: Ban Kōkei, Translation, and National <span class="search-highlight">Language</span> Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Japan View PDF for article titled, The Prose of Our Land: Ban Kōkei, Translation, and National <span class="search-highlight">Language</span> Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century Japan
Journal Article

Inscriptional Repertoires and the Problem of Intra- versus Interlingual Translation in Traditional Korea

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
... Studies 3 : 207 – 62 . Ledyard Gari Keith . 1966 . “ The Korean Language Reform of 1446: The Origin, Background, and Early History of the Korean Alphabet .” PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley . Ledyard Gari Keith . 1997 . “ The Correct Sounds for the Instruction...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Inscriptional Repertoires and the Problem of Intra- versus Interlingual Translation in Traditional Korea View PDF for article titled, Inscriptional Repertoires and the Problem of Intra- versus Interlingual Translation in Traditional Korea
Journal Article

Vernacular Visions in North and South Korea: Interlingual Translations of Unyŏng chŏn (The Tale of Unyŏng) and Ideologies of National Literature

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
... to justify ongoing socialist revolution. One of the most active areas of reform in the immediate postliberation era was the Korean language, and in this ideologically charged nationalistic atmosphere, the tide turned toward exclusive han'gŭl use after years of mixed-script orthography followed...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Vernacular Visions in North and South Korea: Interlingual Translations of Unyŏng chŏn (The Tale of Unyŏng) and Ideologies of National Literature View PDF for article titled, Vernacular Visions in North and South Korea: Interlingual Translations of Unyŏng chŏn (The Tale of Unyŏng) and Ideologies of National Literature
Journal Article

Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange

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
...: this technique, defined as “narrated monologue,” transforms “figural thought-language into the narrative language of third-person fiction” ( Cohn 1978 : 102). In Western literature, narrated monologue, also known as the “free indirect style,” is usually created through the translation of first-person, present...
View articletitled, Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange View PDF for article titled, Anatomy of the Superstitious Mind: Subjectivity and Interiority in Two Early Twentieth-Century Rebuttals to Liaozhai's Records of the Strange
Journal Article

Science Education for Girls in Korea, 1886–1910

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
... science education to Koreans by establishing the government schools ( kwallip hakkyo ) and also endorsing the Western missionaries to build mission schools from 1885. The Chosŏn state aimed to equip male elites with essential knowledge for national modernization, exposing them to foreign languages...
FIGURES
View articletitled, Science Education for Girls in Korea, 1886–1910 View PDF for article titled, Science Education for Girls in Korea, 1886–1910
Journal Article

The State Formation of Late Qing China within Global Geopolitical Dynamics

Sung Hee Ru
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (1): 87–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-9767212
Published: 01 May 2022
... government led by Chiang Kai-shek. In a comparative context and with a longer perspective, Wong (1997) argued that the state-making logics of late imperial China were not identical to those of Europe. While introducing the institutional reform of Qing China's intellectuals—such as Wei Yuan, Feng Guifen...
FIGURES
View articletitled, The State Formation of Late Qing China within Global Geopolitical Dynamics View PDF for article titled, The State Formation of Late Qing China within Global Geopolitical Dynamics
Journal Article

Yi Ok 李鈺 and His Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular)

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
... ) literature in traditional Korea. For words, names, and terms in modern Korean pronunciation, I use the revised McCune-Reischauer system of Romanization. When introducing Middle Korean or Korean linguistic forms that predate the orthographic reform of 1933, I use the Yale Romanization System for Middle...
View articletitled, Yi Ok 李鈺 and His Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular) View PDF for article titled, Yi Ok 李鈺 and His Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular)
Journal Article

The Translating Subject beyond Borders: Relay Translations of Biographies of George Washington in East Asia in the Early Twentieth Century

Sung-jun Son
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (1): 83–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-8873945
Published: 01 May 2021
... under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Fukuyama presents himself as the “editor” ( hensha ) of his book at the end of the preface, since Washington was a reconstruction based on many English source documents. He indicates six English-language sources in the explanatory...
View articletitled, The Translating Subject beyond Borders: Relay Translations of Biographies of George Washington in East Asia in the Early Twentieth Century View PDF for article titled, The Translating Subject beyond Borders: Relay Translations of Biographies of George Washington in East Asia in the Early Twentieth Century
Journal Article

The Traditional New Woman and Emerging New Man in Republican China

Wang Lang
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (1): 81–101.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11056768
Published: 01 May 2024
... mother”). This understudied discourse demands equal responsibility at home and an attentive fatherhood from men. This devaluation of private labor recalls the words of Liang Qichao 梁啟超 (1873–1929), a prominent reformer in the late Qing. In “On Women's Education,” Liang Qichao argues that “the strength...
View articletitled, The Traditional New Woman and Emerging New Man in Republican China View PDF for article titled, The Traditional New Woman and Emerging New Man in Republican China
Journal Article

Where Is North?: Directionality in Precolonial and Colonial Land Surveys in Korea, 1897–1918

Sora Kim
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (1): 105–122.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-8873955
Published: 01 May 2021
... reflect the sense of direction in late nineteenth-century Korea. Despite the last king of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392–1896) proclaiming himself emperor in 1897, with the adoption of a new national name and accompanying administrative reforms, considerable continuity was expected. This is because the local...
FIGURES | View All (4)
View articletitled, Where Is North?: Directionality in Precolonial and Colonial Land Surveys in Korea, 1897–1918 View PDF for article titled, Where Is North?: Directionality in Precolonial and Colonial Land Surveys in Korea, 1897–1918
Journal Article

Sinicizing European Languages: Lexicographical and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Nineteenth-Century China

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
...Yuqing Liu Abstract This article reconsiders the social, economic, and literary significance of Chinese Pidgin English (CPE) in Chinese society by exploring lexicographical and literary practices of pidgin in nineteenth-century China. Resituating the history of CPE in Chinese language history...
FIGURES | View All (4)
View articletitled, Sinicizing European <span class="search-highlight">Languages</span>: Lexicographical and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Nineteenth-Century China View PDF for article titled, Sinicizing European <span class="search-highlight">Languages</span>: Lexicographical and Literary Practices of Pidgin English in Nineteenth-Century China
Journal Article

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

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
... as their writing system. To the ancient Koreans educated in Sinitic, the Chinese script was not perceived as a “foreign language” but rather as a “cosmopolitan script” ( Kornicki 2018: 41, 54 ). Literary Sinitic was used in both official and personal writings. Poetic competence, in particular, came to be seen...
View articletitled, Turning Songs into Poems and Poems into Songs: Intersections of Literary Sinitic and Vernacular Korean in Chosŏn Literature View PDF for article titled, Turning Songs into Poems and Poems into Songs: Intersections of Literary Sinitic and Vernacular Korean in Chosŏn Literature
Journal Article

The On-the-Ground Political Authority of the Nagasaki Magistrate in the Regulation of Chan Monks from Jiangnan and Fujian (Mid-Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Centuries)

Wu Hongsheng
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (2): 161–186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11361734
Published: 01 November 2024
... a central role in trade reforms in Nagasaki from 1685, likely influenced the shogunate to keep its approach to Nagasaki affairs until 1692. As a shogunal proxy, the political authority of the Nagasaki magistrate was subordinate to that of the shogunate. However, when the shogunate was not directly...
View articletitled, The On-the-Ground Political Authority of the Nagasaki Magistrate in the Regulation of Chan Monks from Jiangnan and Fujian (Mid-Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Centuries) View PDF for article titled, The On-the-Ground Political Authority of the Nagasaki Magistrate in the Regulation of Chan Monks from Jiangnan and Fujian (Mid-Seventeenth–Early Eighteenth Centuries)
Journal Article

Vietnamese Scholars and Their Perception of the West in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Cases of Nguyễn Văn Siêu, Nguyễn Tư Giản, and Đặng Huy Trứ

Hoang-Yen Nguyen (Nguyễn Hoàng Yến)
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2022) 22 (2): 183–205.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10040887
Published: 01 November 2022
... in 1862 and 1867–69. By this time, Tự Đức already recognized that something was wrong and wanted to rectify the situation. He actively adopted more measures to understand Western powers, their true features, and how to react. For example, he set up institutions for learning Western languages...
View articletitled, Vietnamese Scholars and Their Perception of the West in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Cases of Nguyễn Văn Siêu, Nguyễn Tư Giản, and Đặng Huy Trứ View PDF for article titled, Vietnamese Scholars and Their Perception of the West in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: The Cases of Nguyễn Văn Siêu, Nguyễn Tư Giản, and Đặng Huy Trứ
Journal Article

Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular)

Yi Ok 李鈺, Young Kyun Oh
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (2): 251–300.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11070825
Published: 01 November 2023
... that of the northern barbarians; if he interprets Matteo Ricci, then it becomes the language of the West. He should not dare to make changes because the sounds are not familiar. When a painter paints an image of a person, if he painted Lord Mengchang, then it becomes the image of a small and weak person; 10 if he...
View articletitled, Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular) View PDF for article titled, Iŏn 俚諺 (Folk Vernacular)
Journal Article

Korea's First Museum and the Categorization of “Buddhist Statues”

Seunghye Lee
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (1): 51–81.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-8873892
Published: 01 May 2021
... of Fine Arts (Yi Wangga Misulgwan 李王家美術館). It was also referred to as the Prince Yi Museum or Prince Yi's Household Museum in English-language publications from the colonial period. Throughout this article, I refer to it as the Prince Yi Household Museum, as it is written in English in the second edition...
FIGURES | View All (18)
View articletitled, Korea's First Museum and the Categorization of “Buddhist Statues” View PDF for article titled, Korea's First Museum and the Categorization of “Buddhist Statues”