Cover illustration: The first page of fascicle 1 of an undated Korean version of the Myobŏp yŏnhwa kyŏng
This work was supported by the Academy of Korean Studies Grant funded by the Korean Government (MEST) (AKS-2011-AAA-2103).
KANBUN TO HIGASHI AJIA: KUNDOKU NO BUNKAKEN
by KIN Bunkyō
© 2010 by KIN Bunkyō
First published in 2010 by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo.
This English language edition published by arrangement with Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kin, Bunkyō, author. | King, Ross, 1961- editor, translator.
Title: Literary Sinitic and East Asia : a cultural sphere of vernacular reading / by Kin Bunkyō ; edited by Ross King ; translated by Ross King, Marjorie Burge, Si Nae Park, Alexey Lushchenko, Mina Hattori.
Other titles: Kanbun to Higashi Ajia. English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021] | Series: Language, writing and literary culture in the sinographic cosmopolis, 2589-8787 ; volume 3 | First published in Japanese as Kanbun to Higashi Ajia: kundoku no bunkaken in 2010 by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, Tokyo. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020042389 (print) | LCCN 2020042390 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004420397 (hardback ; acid-free paper) | ISBN 9789004437302 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Chinese literature—East Asia—History and criticism. | Chinese characters—East Asia—History. | Kanbun (Japanese prose literature)—History and criticism. | Kundoku.
Classification: LCC PL3038 .K5613 2021 (print) | LCC PL3038 (ebook) | DDC 895.109/954—dc23
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