The Newsletter 88 Spring 2021

News from Northeast Asia

Ilhong Ko

The contributions in these pages are guest edited by Ilhong Ko from the Seoul National University Asia Center. They examine how the act of translation can also shed light on the nature of the relationship between the countries in which the original and translated texts were produced.

Cultural encounters through translation in Northeast Asia
Ilhong Ko
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Asian workers’ solidarity and cultural exchange: Korean grassroots activist songs and the Chinese translation and dissemination of the Biography of Chun Tae-il
Kyusik Jeong
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The translation and cultural exchange of the Japanese classic Genjimonogatari in the Northeast Asian world
Nihei Michiaki
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Aspects of Japanese publication translations in Sinmunkwan’s magazines
Tanaka Mika
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Across the Korea Strait and the Yellow Sea. Kim Ji Ha in the 1970s
Jang Moon-seok
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