The essay introduces Liang Qichao's Eumbingsiljayuseo, especially its translation in 1908, which exercised huge influence on Korea in the modern period of enlightenment, and examines the social and cultural causes underlying its translational style of writing Korean with Chinese characters in it. His book, in a persuasive way, dealt with basic concepts and themes about modern civilization, including civilization(文明), barbarity(野蠻), freedom(自由), democracy(民主), civil rights(民權), sovereignty(國權), nation(民族), people(國民), national spirit(國魂), army(軍隊), law(法), press(言論). Accordingly, a number of contemporary Korean intellectuals gave it much attention, trying to employ it positively for the patriotic enlightenment movement. The mixed style of Korean and Chinese writing played an important role in the process. It seems contradictory at first glance that the mixed style of Korean and Chinese writing was prevalent in the establishing process of modern nation-state where much emphasis was given to the use of the national language and the unity of speech and writing. However, it is considered very understandable that the popularity came in a very natural way from Koreans' strategy to build a modern nation-state by freeing themselves from the yoke of Chinese characters yet taking over in an appropriate way its cultural asset at the same time. To illustrate the causes and background of this process in the social context, the essay cites themes like the users of the mixed style, the effect of translation, the tradition of borrowed writing, the re-adjustment of Chinese character and writing's position, the confusion in Korean writing and so on.
Eumbingsiljayuseo(飮氷室自由書)Liang Qichaothe mixed style of Korean and Chinese writingtranslationthe period of modern enlightenmentKorean writingnational language
중앙어문학회 [The Society of Chung-Ang Language & Literature]
설립연도
1993
분야
인문학>한국어와문학
소개
국어국문학의 연구를 통하여 국어국문학의 발전에 기여하고 국어국문학의 학풍을 진작함에 있다. 이에, 국어국문학 연구 자료의 조사/수집/정리 및 연구 결과의 평가와 편집을 하고, 전국 학회 규모의 연구 발표회와 각 분과별 세미나의 개최를 연 4회 한다. 또한 <어문론집>(현재 32집 발간)과 연구물의 간행한다. 더불어 국내외 연구 단체와의 제휴도 그 목적이 있다.