Inter- and Intra-lingual Translation in the Sinographic Cosmopolis

In the first special issue of the Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies, contributors examine pre-1945 topics on East Asia in the humanities writ large, focusing on translation studies and translation history in the sinographic East Asian region. The first two articles in the issue cover translation in Edo Japan, including the ideas and practice of Ban Kokei and Remarks on Poetry from Makuzugahara by Tendai Buddhist priest Rikunyo. The remaining articles are about Korea, covering modern-day assumptions about translation in traditional Korea and contrasting modern translations from North and South Korea of Unyong chon, an early seventeenth-century fictional narrative written in Literary Sinitic, among other topics.

Contributors: Rebekah Clements, Matthew Fraleigh, Ito Hideto, Ross King, Young Kyun Oh, Yi Ok, Daniel Pieper