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Abstract

This article aims to examine what literature was translated and published in thefield of law and political science in modern Korea, from 1895 to 1910. In chapter II, we analyze the textbook policy of Korean government and elucidatethe way in which Japanese occupation, commencing in 1905, resulted in interferencewith this policy, or censorship of it. We can see the most pertinent illustration of thewestern impact on Korea in a text dealing with international law:『萬國公法』(1864),W. A. P. Martin’s Chinese translation of Elements of International Law(1836) byWheaton; 『萬國公法(An interpretation of public law)』, a translation of Das moderneVökerrecht(1868) by J. C. Bluntschli; and『 􃤙言』, a translation of a Chinese book, I-yen(1871) by Cheng Kuan-ying. In chapter IV, we collect legal literature, addressing both constitutional law andprocedural law, and analyze each book and document in the original, in order toelucidate its meaning, as well as its influence on Korean society. In chapter V, we examine works of political science and state theory. It isremarkable to realize that Ahn Chongwha’s translation, Kukgahak Kangnyung(Program on State theory), was based on Liang Chi Chao’s Chinese translation, whichreferred to Kato Hiroyuki’s Japanese translation of Bluntschli’s German version. At this time, Korean intellectuals read and used Chinese texts in the original. Inorder to build a nation state, to propagate the national language, and to enlightenpeople through the diffusion of knowledge, they also translated a considerablequantity of foreign literature by way of Chinese and Japanese.