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A Reinterpretation of Chosŏn-Qing Foreign Relations through an Analysis of Chosŏn and Later Jin Bilateral Relations

Leighanne Yuh, Jungsoo Jang
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (1): 49–71.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10336292
Published: 01 May 2023
... and Later Jin evolved between 1605 and 1636 and later influenced Chosŏn-Qing relations. While Chosŏn initially treated Later Jin as barbarians and not as an official state, after the establishment of Later Jin, equal interstate relations were established through the exchange of royal letters ( kuksŏ 國書...
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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
... Buddhist art collection and its historical implications remain unexamined. Given that not a single Buddhist temple was allowed to exist within the capital city, the entry of these objects into the palace demonstrates a radical paradigm shift in the royal court's relation to Buddhist icons. The museum's...
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Iberian Sources on the Imjin War: The Relação do fim e remate que teve a guerra da Corea (1599)

Giuseppe Marino, Rebekah Clements
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2023) 23 (1): 27–48.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-10336282
Published: 01 May 2023
... name who were present in Japan ( Obara 1981: 399 ); however, after consulting each of their letters, it is likely two of these are the same individual due to the dates when their letters were written. The first Francisco Rodriguez arrived in Asia in the initial decades after the European discovery...
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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

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
... Chinese was in popular use. A letter addressed to the monk Pou from the high priest Paegun Kyŏnghan 白雲景閑 (1353–?), born in North Chŏlla, contains the following expression: (2)同参 底 事 作麼生 ? ( Eda Toshio 1977: 262 ) What should we do about studying under the same master? Here we see the baihua...
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Buddhist Artwork as Political Symbolism: With a Focus on Buddhist Artwork Created in the 920s in Later Paekche

Joung-hwan Jin (Chin Chŏnghwan)
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2024) 24 (2): 187–211.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-11361743
Published: 01 November 2024
... fulfilled its mission of establishing a successor kingdom to Paekche. But Kyŏn Hwŏn did not stop there. He constructed a five-story stone stūpa modeled on the one that had stood at Mirŭk Temple in the vicinity of the Paekche royal palace. This stūpa was a political symbol that served to highlight Later...
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Play a Trick and Get a Queen: “Divine Tricksters” in Ancient Korea (and Beyond)

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
... spirituali dei briganti . Milan : Medusa . Haedong kosŭng chŏn 海東高僧傳 [Lives of the eminent monks of Korea]. At least five books originally, only two extant. Completed on royal order in 1215 by the monk Kakhun 覺訓. References are to T. 50, 2065n. Heinrich, Bernd . ( 1999 ) 2019 . La mente del...
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Doctrine beyond Borders: The Sinographic Cosmopolis and Religious Classics in Vietnam from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Centuries

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
... Việt dynasties built a Confucian state model, while using Buddhism and Taoism in royal and social activities. The administrative apparatus included a military office, a civil office (six ministries: Ministry of Personnel, Ministry of Revenue, Ministry of the Military, Ministry of Law, Ministry of Works...
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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
... is it that I am presumptuous? You have called me presumptuous, so let me say it loudly without avoiding being presumptuous. I once 64 saw in the Kangxi zidian , where it recorded le 玏 (SK. nŭk ) and stated “name of a royal relative in Chosŏn”; 65 it also recorded the character duo 畓 (SK. tap...
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T'aengniji by Yi Chunghwan (1690–1756?): Land and Politics

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
...人), and they chose the brush and the written word over weapons. For a Confucian gentleman, being a man of letters ( munin 文人) was more important than being a muin , and this was one more aspect that qualified Chosŏn to become the new Middle Kingdom, because the Qing, the Jurchen who had entered...
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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
... . Davis Sir John Francis . 1829 . Poeseos Sinensis Commentarii: On the Poetry of the Chinese . London : Royal Asiatic Society . Ding Picus Sizhi . 2021 . “ From Ang Moh 紅毛 to Phi Jun 批准: The Role of Southern Min in Early Contacts between Chinese and European Languages .” In Sinophone...
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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
... parlance about translation in contemporary literature one frequently encounters references to “translation into han'gŭl ,” “translation into Korean letters,” or (worse) “translation into Chinese letters.” This is a practice that has irked for me many years now, and I have always dismissed it as yet...
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Kangaku and the State: Colonial Collaboration between Korean and Japanese Traditional Sinologists

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
... for Chŏng Mujŏng Taejehak (“鄭茂亭大提學の長逝を悼む” [Teimotei daiteigaku no chōsei o itamu]), and one of Chŏng's writings (“On correcting corruption in Korean Letters” 朝鮮詩文捄弊論 [Chosŏn shimun gup'yeron]) was also published. In his eulogy, Shionoya describes Chŏng's personal profile in considerable detail and describes...
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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
..., Royall, trans . 2001 . The Tale of Genji . By Shikibu Murasaki . New York : Viking . Wakabayashi Judy . 2005 . “ The Reconceptualization of Translation from Chinese in Eighteenth Century Japan .” In Translation and Cultural Change: Studies in History, Norms, and Image-Projection...
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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

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
..., poetry was at that time but one prominent literary genre within a broader trend toward writing about personal life that extended onto various textual categories such as letters, prefaces, records, and prayer texts (9). Exchange poetry was thus particularly productive in the first half of the ninth...
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Useless Tribute, Desirable Exotics: Japanese Folding Fans in China, 1000–1500

Yiwen Li
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (2021) 21 (1): 27–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15982661-8873882
Published: 01 May 2021
...–83), the king of the southern court of Japan at the time, send a delegation in 1371 to present a letter and Japanese local products to Hongwu. The emperor reciprocated with fine fabric and a Chinese calendar ( Zhang Tingyu, Ming shi , 322:8342 ; Yutani Minoru, Nichimin kangō bōeki shiryō , 17–18...
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Approaching Classical Chinese Poetry in Early Modern Japan: Intralingual and Interlingual Translation Strategies in Rikunyo's Remarks on Poetry

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
... day. To varying degrees over the centuries, they have also been enthusiastic creators of such texts. Poetry in classical Chinese forms (what is now called kanshi 漢詩) flourished spectacularly from the early ninth century (when the Japanese royal court commissioned several anthologies of Sinitic verse...
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