한ㆍ중 『서사건국지』에 대한 비교 고찰

Abstract

This paper outlines the differences of "The Founding of the Swiss Republic" and its Korean translation by Eunsik Park. The Korean version has been considered as the first politics fiction in Korea. First of all, the paper demonstrates that the translation was based on a fiction published by Chinese Huayang Shuju of Hongkong in 1902. Written by Zheng Guangong, a famous journalist and revolutionary spreader in neoteric China, the fiction was translated from the Japanese version of "The Founding of the Swiss Republic". The demonstration can be useful to correct the misunderstanding of the original and the original writer. Secondly, in the comparison of Chinese and Korean translations, the paper describes that the Korean version kept the major contents in the Chinese version although the whole structure was changed. The method of particlesupply was applied and the preface in the Chinese version was much referred. In a sense, it is an edition of the Chinese version. In conclusion, the paper discusses the prevalence of "The Founding of Swiss Republic" from Japan to Chinaand finally to Korea. Furthermore, the different translations resulted in diverse influences in these three countries.