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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies.daily12026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 17 (2017) through current issueLatest Articles: Sungkyun Journal of East Asian StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies2586-03801598-2661Latest articles in Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Vernacularization of Literary Sinitic in Early Modern Vietnam's Confucian Texts: A Study of the Annotations in the Tứ thư ước giải 四書約解
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976565
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Alongside wenyan (文言, literary Sinitic; henceforth LS), another form of written Sinitic in the premodern era was baihua (白話, vernacular Sinitic), which is claimed to be based on the spoken language of the post-Qin–Han era—a time period during which spoken Chinese saw an explosion of new vocabulary, meanings, and constructions differing from orthodox LS (Xu 2007b: 18–19). Baihua is said to have its origins in the spread of Buddhism throughout China during the Eastern Han 東漢 period (25–220 CE), in combination with the translation of Buddhist scriptures containing a large number of Sanskrit terms translated into Chinese (Mair 1994). Based on the relationship between baihua and LS, Shiyi Xu (2007a) divided baihua into
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallVernacularization of Literary Sinitic in Early Modern Vietnam's Confucian Texts: A Study of the Annotations in the Tứ thư ước giải 四書約解2025-12-11text/htmlen-USVernacularization of Literary Sinitic in Early Modern Vietnam's Confucian Texts: A Study of the Annotations in the Tứ thư ước giải 四書約解2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1292572026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11The Persistence of Literary Sinitic in Colonial Vietnam: A Case Study of Nam Nữ Giao Hợp Phụ Luận 男女交合附論
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976566
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For hundreds of years until the 1900s, literary Sinitic (henceforth, LS) served as a scripta franca for cross-border communication in the Sinographic cosmopolis (Li et al. 2022: 10; Jin 2022; King 2023: 2–8). However, this situation underwent significant changes with the colonial invasions by Western powers. In 1885 Vietnam became a French colony. To consolidate their colonial rule, the French colonial authorities implemented a series of cultural assimilation policies, with language policy being crucial. They promoted the use of French and Quốc Ngữ (the Romanized Vietnamese script), restricted the using of sinographs, and published newspapers in Quốc Ngữ, aiming to sever Vietnam's cultural ties with China and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallThe Persistence of Literary Sinitic in Colonial Vietnam: A Case Study of Nam Nữ Giao Hợp Phụ Luận 男女交合附論2025-12-11text/htmlen-USThe Persistence of Literary Sinitic in Colonial Vietnam: A Case Study of Nam Nữ Giao Hợp Phụ Luận 男女交合附論2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1431622026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11On the Identification and Reading of Proper Nouns in Vietnamese Commentaries on the Analects
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976567
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The fact that many symbols marking proper nouns can be found in literary Sinitic (LS) and Sino-Nôm texts in Vietnam has been discussed by Teiji Kosukegawa (2014, 2017) and Kosukegawa and John Whitman (2018). Similar symbols can also be found in LS texts in China and Japan. According to Xihua Guan (2002), zhuanming hao (専名號, name marks) are found in classical texts in China.1 Meanwhile, in Japan, symbols marking proper nouns are known as shubiki (朱引, vermilion sidelining; English translation by Kosukegawa and Whitman 2018: 43). General descriptions of the shapes, position, and purpose of shubiki can be found as far back as the early Edo period (1600–1868) in Japanese dictionaries and encyclopedias such as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallOn the Identification and Reading of Proper Nouns in Vietnamese Commentaries on the Analects2025-12-11text/htmlen-USOn the Identification and Reading of Proper Nouns in Vietnamese Commentaries on the Analects2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1323432026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11South Korean Studies on Literary Sinitic Sources from Vietnam
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976568
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South Korean research on Literary Sinitic (henceforth, LS) sources in Vietnam nowadays has reached a relatively stable level. Both Vietnamese and Korean academia produce researchers capable of working with vernacular Korean, Vietnamese, and literary Sinitic sources, leading to the accumulation of a considerable number of research results that now deserve further scrutiny.The history of studying Vietnamese LS sources in Korea is relatively short, but there have been many changes and challenges already. When analyzing the underlying reasons for these changes, the most significant factors seem to have been political developments, both domestic and diplomatic. Concomitant with these developments, we have witnessed
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallSouth Korean Studies on Literary Sinitic Sources from Vietnam2025-12-11text/htmlen-USSouth Korean Studies on Literary Sinitic Sources from Vietnam2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1355652026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Record of the History of Korean Aristocrat Lady Yi Adrift and Nam Phong tạp chí 南風雜誌
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976569
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From June 1922 to August 1923, a remarkable story was serialized in four issues of the Vietnamese periodical Southern Wind Magazine (Nam Phong tạp chí 南風雜 誌, henceforth Southern Wind): Lady Yi 李女士, daughter of an aristocratic family in colonial Korea, chooses to leave her family and country and opts instead for a roving life of self-exile, hoping to become an independent woman, gain a modern education, and work to save her homeland from Japanese oppression. Lady Yi arrives in China during the 1911 Xinhai revolution and enrolls at a girls' school in Guangzhou, where she befriends the narrator and author of the story, the "Lady with a Gallant Spirit" (俠魂女士). After graduating, she founds a Korean nationalist
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallRecord of the History of Korean Aristocrat Lady Yi Adrift and Nam Phong tạp chí 南風雜誌2025-12-11text/htmlen-USRecord of the History of Korean Aristocrat Lady Yi Adrift and Nam Phong tạp chí 南風雜誌2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®952192026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Record of the History of Korean Aristocrat Lady Yi Adrift, and Lady with a Gallant Spirit = Ghi Triều Tiên quý tộc Lý nữ sĩ lưu lạc lịch sử: Hiệp hồn nữ sĩ
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976570
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Once, there was a girls' school on the northern shore of Lychee Bay in my hometown of Guangzhou.1 The school was located in a number of Westernstyle buildings that, up close, loomed lofty and majestic. This was, in fact, my alma mater.2 When my alma mater was founded in 1902, the girls who came from faraway places carrying book boxes on their backs were like a crowd of water deer gathering together.3 Thus there were always at least seven or eight hundred students enrolled at the school. Inspired by the opportunity I had to meet my bosom friend Lady Yi during my time there, I composed this record of events beginning with our meeting at school. The lady's personal name was Yŏyŏng, and her courtesy name was Maesŏn.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallRecord of the History of Korean Aristocrat Lady Yi Adrift, and Lady with a Gallant Spirit = Ghi Triều Tiên quý tộc Lý nữ sĩ lưu lạc lịch sử: Hiệp hồn nữ sĩ2025-12-11text/htmlen-USRecord of the History of Korean Aristocrat Lady Yi Adrift, and Lady with a Gallant Spirit = Ghi Triều Tiên quý tộc Lý nữ sĩ lưu lạc lịch sử: Hiệp hồn nữ sĩ2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®1697072026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11Editors' Preface: Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976571
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As advertised in a "Note to Potential Contributors" from the editor in chief in Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies (SJEAS 19, no. 2), since autumn 2019 SJEAS has redefined and narrowed its focus to concentrate primarily on pre-1945 topics on East Asia in the humanities writ large, wherein East Asia is construed as the former "Sinographic sphere" or "Sinographic cosmopolis," including notably Vietnam. Since then, SJEAS has begun to receive several submissions related to Vietnam, and has thus far published two articles on Vietnamese topics: Hoàng Yến Nguyen (2022) and Trọng Dương Trần (2023).With the assistance of John Phan, associate professor of Vietnamese humanities at Columbia University and member of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-17T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/717/image/coversmallEditors' Preface: Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis2025-12-11text/htmlen-USEditors' Preface: Special Issue on Vietnam in the Sinographic Cosmopolis2025-12-112025TWOProject MUSE®84672026-05-17T00:00:00-05:002025-12-11