A Comparative Study Of Chinese Character Policies In Japan And South Korea Since Modern Times

Ancient Japan,South Korea and other east coast countries and China belong to the cultural circle of Chinese characters.These countries carry out cultural exchanges by using Chinese characters.South Korea and Japan,as an important part of the cultural circle of Chinese characters,as well as because of the convenience of geographical conditions,had wrote Chinese and record the national language by using Chinese characters for a long time in history.Although Japan and South Korea have created pseudonyms and hunminjeongeum respectively,and each has its own national characters,the status of Chinese characters has not been replaced.For a long time after that,Chinese characters still occupied a dominant position in the writing life of the two countries,especially in the writing of legal,diplomatic and other official documents and official occasions.Since modern times,the national consciousness of the Japanese and the Koreans has gradually increased in the process of using Chinese characters,and they have sought the independence of the language while realizing the national independence.In addition,Japan and South Korea found that there are fundamental differences between Chinese characters and their own language,and the long-term use of Chinese characters to record the national language has certain limitations.As a result,after modern times,there has been an upsurge of national language reform and abolishment of Chinese characters in Japan and South Korea,and the two governments have formulated corresponding restrictions,or even abolished the use of Chinese characters.As a result of the implementation of the policies of the two countries,Japan still retains Chinese characters as part of the national characters and uses them together with pseudonyms and Roman characters as the Japanese characters.However,South Korea basically abolished Chinese characters in its written life,realized the special use of Korean,and used Chinese characters in only a few fields.What are the similarities and differences between Japan and South Korea in the historical background,specific policy changes,results and effects of restricting or even abolishing Chinese characters,and what are the enlightenments to the present and future trend of Chinese characters in Japan and South Korea?This is the academic and thinking background to determine the topic of this paper.From ancient times to the present,Japan and South Korea have had close exchanges with China in many aspects,such as culture,trade,and so on.The study of the Chinese character policy of the two countries is of great significance to explore the future trend of Chinese characters in East Asian countries and to realize the common progress of the East Asian cultural circle.This paper compares the similarities and differences of the policy content,results and influence of the two countries,which takes the Chinese character policy content of Japan and South Korea as the research object.There are four chapters in this paper.The first chapter is the introduction,which is divided into two sections.In the first section,the significance,research value,research purpose and research methods of this paper are introduced in detail,the research status related to this paper is combed and summarized in the second section.It covers the research results of Japanese academic circles,Korean academic circles and China.The second,third and fourth chapters are the main part of this paper.The second chapter introduces the background of Japanese character reform first,then combs and summarizes the domestic Chinese character restriction policy,and finally summarizes the impact of the policy on Japanese society.The third chapter first introduces the Korean domestic text life after hunminjeongeum and its formulation,followed by the introduction of the Korean special policy background,and the main content of the Korean special policy and related important matters are summarized.Finally,the social impact of the Korean special policy is expounded.The fourth chapter makes a comprehensive comparison of the Chinese character policies of Japan and South Korea,and sums up the similarities and differences of the policy changes between the two countries.The conclusion part summarizes the main content of the main body,summarizes the vicissitude of Chinese character policy in Japan and South Korea,and analyzes the common reasons for the restriction of Chinese character policy in Japan and South Korea.In addition,this paper further discusses the effects and enlightenment of the Chinese character policies of the two countries.