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How to Read a Sinographic Text in Eighteenth-Century Chosŏn Korea: Liuxi Waizhuan and Yi Tŏngmu's Compilation of Noeroe Nangnak Sŏ

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Suyoung Son*
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Suyoung Son (ss994@cornell.edu) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University.
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Abstract

This paper examines the transnational literary interactions in the early modern Sinographic sphere by examining the late Chosŏn writer Yi Tŏngmu's reading of an early Qing text, Liuxi Waizhuan, and its resonance in his compilation of Noeroe Nangnak Sŏ. Reconsidering the unmediated communicability of the Sinographic text, it demonstrates the ways in which Noeroe Nangnak Sŏ decoupled Liuxi Waizhuan from its local conditions of production and circulation and relocalized it to fit Chosŏn Korea's agenda of repositioning itself in the changing Sinocentric order after the downfall of the Ming. Between delocalizing and relocalizing the Sinographic text, the compilation of Noeroe Nangnak Sŏ participated in the constantly shifting meanings of loyalty to the fallen Ming, thereby diversifying the repertoire of the shared civilization in early modern East Asia.

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