{"id":451,"date":"2021-08-01T10:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/?p=451"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:24:39","slug":"the-korea-now-podcast-110-literature-series-sixiang-wang-the-politics-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/the-korea-now-podcast-110-literature-series-sixiang-wang-the-politics-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"The Korea Now Podcast\u00a0#110\u00a0(Literature Series) \u2013 Sixiang Wang \u2013 \u2018The Politics of Language&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sixiang Wang. They speak about the exchanges between Choson Korea (1392-1910) and Ming China (1368-1644), the Korean envoys and interpreters who mediated between the two dynasties, the need of these interpreters to master spoken Chinese, the extensive body of language materials that were created for this purpose, and the invention of the Hangul script to systematically represent the phonology of Sino-Korean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r5xm7Mr00NM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Sixiang Wang. They speak about&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/the-korea-now-podcast-110-literature-series-sixiang-wang-the-politics-of-language\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Korea Now Podcast\u00a0#110\u00a0(Literature Series) \u2013 Sixiang Wang \u2013 \u2018The Politics of Language&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-public-lectures","post_format-post-format-audio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Nhqs-7h","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88,"url":"https:\/\/chosonhistory.org\/SixWang\/the-sounds-of-our-country-interpreters-linguistic-knowledge-and-the-politics-of-language-in-early-choson-korea-1392-1592\/","url_meta":{"origin":451,"position":0},"title":"The Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chos\u014fn Korea (1392\u20131592)","author":"Sixiang Wang","date":"August 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"2014 \u201cThe Sounds of Our Country: Interpreters, Linguistic Knowledge and the Politics of Language in Early Chos\u014fn Korea (1392\u20131592).\u201d In Rethinking East Asian Languages, Vernaculars, and Literacies, 1000\u20131919. 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