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The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea

The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/sungkyun-journal-of-east-asian-studies/article-pdf/21/2/255/1466928/255kim.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 31 March 2022 BOOK REVIEW Na Man’gap, The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea. Trans. George Kallander. New York: Colum bia University Press, 2020. 360 pages. ISBN-13: 9780231197564 (hard cover). US$120.00/£100.00. A major imped i ment in teach ing and conducting research about top ics that cross the bound aries of national his to ries is lan guage in the broadest sense. Translation of vocab u lary and gram mar in one lan guage to another is inher ently com plex, but more dif fi cult and some times insur mount able is the chal lenge of con vey ing all the social and cul tural nuances embod ied in a his tor i cal record. As inter na tional aca­ de mia stresses greater intel lec tual syn ergy rather than spe cial i za tion, par tic u larly in the human i ties and social sci ences, expanding our access to sources of knowl­ edge, as achieved through trans la tion, will become ever more impor tant. George Kallander’s trans la tion of this source for pre mod ern Korean and Northeast Asian stud ies http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies Duke University Press

The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea

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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/sungkyun-journal-of-east-asian-studies/article-pdf/21/2/255/1466928/255kim.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 31 March 2022 BOOK REVIEW Na Man’gap, The Diary of 1636: The Second Manchu Invasion of Korea. Trans. George Kallander. New York: Colum bia University Press, 2020. 360 pages. ISBN-13: 9780231197564 (hard cover). US$120.00/£100.00. A major imped i ment in teach ing and conducting research about top ics that cross the bound aries of national his to ries is lan guage in the broadest sense. Translation of vocab u lary and gram mar in one lan guage to another is inher ently com plex, but more dif fi cult and some times insur mount able is the chal lenge of con vey ing all the social and cul tural nuances embod ied in a his tor i cal record. As inter na tional aca­ de mia stresses greater intel lec tual syn ergy rather than spe cial i za tion, par tic u larly in the human i ties and social sci ences, expanding our access to sources of knowl­ edge, as achieved through trans la tion, will become ever more impor tant. George Kallander’s trans la tion of this source for pre mod ern Korean and Northeast Asian stud ies

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Published: Nov 1, 2021

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