A Comparative Study of the Lexicon of Chinese Character in East Asia : For the lexicon of Chinese Character of Japanese(JC), Vietnamese(VC) and Korean(KC)

The studies of post-communist Russia and China have traditionally been dominated by single-case studies and within-region comparisons. This chapter explores why the CAS of post-communist Russia and China is difficult, why it is rare, and how it could yield significant and unique intellectual payoffs. The cross-regional comparative study of anti-corruption campaigns in contemporary Russia and China is used as an example in this chapter to argue that a well-matched and context-sensitive comparison could reveal significant divergence in the elite politics and institutional capacities of these regimes that would otherwise likely be obscured by single-case studies or studies restricted to one single geographical area such as “Eastern Europe” or “East Asia.” By breaking Russia and China out of their respective “regions,” the CAS perspective thus enables us to better capture the full range of existing diversity of post-communist authoritarianism.

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Subtitling Calligraphy

Journal of Chinese Film Studies ◽

10.1515/jcfs-2021-0004 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 115-133

Author(s):

Markus Nornes

Keyword(s):

East Asia ◽

Human Body ◽

Chinese Character ◽

Intimate Relationship ◽

Global Dimension ◽

Written Language ◽

Chinese Cinema ◽

Specific Difference ◽

Art Forms ◽

Sister Arts

Abstract This essay examines a regional, not global, dimension of Chinese cinema: the Chinese character in its brushed form. Calligraphy and cinema have an intimate relationship in East Asia. Indeed, the ubiquity of the brushed word in cinema is one element that actually ties works in Korean, Japanese and Sinophone Asia together as a regional cinema. At the same time, I will explore the very specific difference of Chinese filmmakers’ use of written language. On first glance, cinema and calligraphy would appear as radically different art forms. On second glance, they present themselves as sister arts. Both are art forms built from records of the human body moving in (an absent) time and space. The essay ends with a consideration of subtitling, upon which Chinese cinema’s global dimension is predicated. How does investigating this very problem lead us to rethinking the nature of the cinematic subtitle, which is very much alive―a truly movable type?

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A comparative study of children’s Chinese character textbooks in Korea and China, with a focus on Yu Hap

Journal of Chinese Writing Systems ◽

10.1177/2513850221970281 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 145-153

Author(s):

Jeong Yeon Sil ◽

Jang Eun Young ◽

Park Heung Soo

Keyword(s):

Comparative Analysis ◽

Comparative Study ◽

Chinese Character ◽

Significant Proportion ◽

Written Language ◽

Chinese Characters ◽

Children's Books ◽

High Learning ◽

Modern Chinese ◽

Ancient Times

This study examines why and how Chinese characters spread into Korea. It subsequently conducts a comparative analysis of Korean and Chinese children’s textbooks with a focus on Yu Hap from the perspective of the acceptance and acculturation of Chinese characters. It also explores how commonly used the characters in Yu Hap are, and the text’s learning value as one of Korea’s children’s textbooks. Yu Hap is very significant as the first written language textbook published in Korea. A comparative analysis of the characters used in four children’s books published in Korea found that the characters in Yu Hap are very common, and the text has a high learning value. Approximately 50% of the characters in San Bai Qian and Yu Hap are the same, showing that both China and Korea had similar perceptions of the characters in common use. A very significant proportion of characters overlap in Basic Chinese Character for Educational Use, List of Common Words in Modern Chinese, and Yu Hap; this supports the idea that the same characters have continued to be used from ancient times to the present day.

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A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF PALEOLITHIC PERIOD OF SOUTH ASIA AND EAST ASIA

10.36106/ijar/9813550 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 49-50

Author(s):

Marri Padmaja ◽

B. K. Rangaswamy

Keyword(s):

Comparative Study ◽

East Asia ◽

South Asia ◽

Cultural Development ◽

Human Beings ◽

Development Of Language

E.B. Tylor and L.H. Morgan postulated that man kind as a whole has passed through the stages of savagery, barbarism and civilization. Tylor did n'st place specic cultures into different stages of cultural development of human beings, but Morgan subdivided the stage of savagery and barbarism each in to three groups , namely lower, middle and upper. He was of opinion that lower savagery began with development of language and gathering of fruits and nuts assubsistence. This stage ended with development of shing subsistence and use of re. No living example can be citedto this stratum.

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