• Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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• 제72호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2006

우리는 한국동굴학회의 요청과 사업계획에 따라, 동북-중앙아시아지역 동굴과학정보망 구축 사업에 동의하고 이를 기원하는 뜻으로 중국 길림성 연변조선족자치주 화룡시 근교의 충천계곡(골)자연동굴을 탐사하였다. 이를 위하여 1년 전 어느 날 화룡시 충천 골에 있는 동굴을 찾아 연길에서 차를 타고 장인촌으로 간 적이 있었다. 그곳에 가서 수소문하여 동굴에 대해 잘 알고 계신다는 김창현 노인을 찾았다. 당시 우리가 그 노인을 찾았을 때는 이미 점심때가 다 되었다. 우리가 동굴을 찾아가 보려고 김창현 노인을 찾아왔다고 하자, 그 노인은 동굴이 이곳에서 멀리 떨어져 있어서 아침 일찍 떠나야 하기에 오늘은 갈 수 없다고 하였다. 그리하여 우리는 김 노인으로부터 동굴에 대한 이야기만 좀 듣고 돌아와서 후에 약속한 날에 다시 탐사방문을 추진하기로 결정하였고, 바로 이때부터 우리는 국제교류와 협력을 통하여 사실상 국제동굴과학정보망 구축 사업에 동참을 시작한 셈이 되었으며, 이를 적극 지지한다.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.27-42
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• 2018

Textbooks of Turkish grammar and syntax that are commonly used in Turkish universities demonstrate certain differences of approach, interpretation and terminology of syntax. In this article, I analyze the syntactic approaches that are implemented in the grammar works of Muharrem Ergin, Tahsin $Banguo{\breve{g}}lu$ and Tahir Nejat Gencan, and in the syntax works of Leyla Karahan, Mustafa ${\ddot{O}}zkan$ & Veysi Sevinçli and H. ${\dot{I}}brahim$ Delice as the most commonly used textbooks, and determine resemblances and variations of syntactic approaches between them. It is concluded that, among others, the most prominent differences between these works concern the constructions of the non-finite subordination, the ki-subordination and compound sentences.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 한국원자력학회 1997년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(2)
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• pp.611-617
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• 1997

일본은 고속증식로인 "몬쥬"의 나트륨 누설사고를 계기로 그동안 일반국민 및 지방자치 단체들에게 잠복되어 왔던 국가 원자력정책에 대한 불신이 확산되었다. 그러나 자원빈국인 일본은 원자력의 지속적 개발이 절실한 실정이기 때문에 향후 원자력개발사업을 성공적으로 추진하기 위하여 원자력에 대한 국민의 합의형성이 가장 중요한 문제로 등장하였다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 1996년 3월 원자력위원회 소속 하에 원자력정책원탁회의가 설치되었다. 원탁회의는 그동안 11차례의 회의를 개최한 결과를 정리하여 2회에 걸쳐 원자력위원회에 정책제안을 하였으며, 원자력위원회는 이를 전면적으로 수용하였다. 한편, 국민적 합의 형성을 위한 원자력정책원탁회의의 활동에도 불구하고 원자력 개발의 중심이 중앙에서 지방으로 이전됨에 따라 원자력 행정체제의 근본적 개혁 움직임이 나타나고 있다. 따라서, "원자력장기계획"도 "원자력연구개발장기계획"으로 수정될 전망이다. 그리고 정부주도에 의하여 검토되고 있는 전력시장 자유화를 통한 전력개편은 이를 그대로 적용하기가 다소 어려울 것으로 보인다. 그리고 일본국제포럼은 유라톰과 같은 아시아지역의 원자력공동체의 설립(안)을 제시한 바가 있으며, 이러한 지역협력체를 통하여 원자력의 평화적 이용을 저해하는 여러 가지 장벽들을 어느 정도 극복할 수 있을 것이다.여러 가지 장벽들을 어느 정도 극복할 수 있을 것이다.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.21-36
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• 2021

This paper discusses textile motifs depicted in the hunting panels inside the late Sasanian larger grotto at Taq-i Bustan. Scholars of Iranian art have referred to these rock reliefs in order to trace the origin of Sasanian textile decorations and their exportation in the whole medieval Eurasian continent. This however does not seem to be the case. In fact, the textile motifs reproduced at Taq-i Bustan could be a good term of comparison only for late Sasanian textile production. Moreover, nothing like this has appeared in previous Sasanian rock reliefs. For this reason, the present paper argues that some of those motifs could actually be importations from Central Asia where reproductions of textiles embellished with those motifs were very popular. Islamic written sources on Taq-i Bustan rock reliefs could be very useful to support some ideas expressed in this paper.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.25-69
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• 2019

India has occupied the most important position of sea trade in the entire South Asian region since the beginning of maritime trade. The extensive maritime trade network between the Harappan and Mesopotamian civilizations as early as the $3^{rd}$ millennium BCE is testimony to the long maritime trade history of India. The Harappans constructed many seaports including the first high-tide dockyard in the world for berthing and servicing ships at the port town of Lothal, Gujarat. From the dawn of the historical epoch, the maritime trade network of India expanded extensively. The long 5422.6 kms coastline of the Indian mainland (excluding the coastlines of the Andaman and Nicobar islands and the Lakshwadweep Islands) is well known for its several seaports manly located at river mouths or outlets to the sea. The main objective of this paper is to discuss in detail all the major ancient seaports on the eastern coast of India and their maritime trade activities. The narrative of these ports is based on archaeological explorations and excavations, foreigners' accounts, Indian literary sources, inscriptions, archival materials, and the field study and personal observation of the author.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.111-124
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• 2019

This article aims to explore how Confucian knowledge and concepts were adapted, consolidated, and negotiated in the translation of Islam in China. Translation has always played a key role in producing and disseminating knowledge across cultures and languages, but little has been discussed to identify "the intimate connection between translation and the mediation of knowledge" (Baker 2018). Drawing on the studies of Chinese Confucian scholars on Islam, such as Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin, this article argues that Islam in China features many aspects of Neo-Confucianism that highly appreciate secular morality resulting in Confucian Islam, and that this was rationalized based on the similarities between Confucianism and Islam, placing Islam on a par with Confucianism for indigenization.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2018

The concept of the "Seidenstrassen" (Silk Road) was created by the German geographer F. von Richthofen (1833-1905) in 1877. The "Seidenstrassen" means communication between China and the Roman cultural area. To prove the route of dissemination of silk, Richthofen not only focused on geographical substantiality, based on the routes of the Chinese Zhang Qian and the Roman Ptolemy, but also on etymological, historical, and religious sources. In fact, his Silk Road concept has the trade of silk as well as the humanistic ideas of cultural exchange. It is worth noting that in his book China, Richthofen presented the Silk Road as a space-time concept that considers the length of space as well as the length of time by highlighting humanistic examples that came into modern times through the Sea Route. Later, the English term "Silk Road" appeared in 1938, the Japanese term "シルクロ-ド" (sirukurodo) in 1939, and the Korean term "실크로드" (silkrodeu) in 1952.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제3권2호
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• pp.161-180
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• 2018

Pax Sinica is a historiographical term, modeled after the original phrase Pax Romana. It refers, in Latin, to a Chinese-provided peace which in turn is used to describe an era of peace in East Asia sustained by Chinese hegemony. In historical terms, both the Pax Sinica of the Eastern hemisphere through Han China and the Pax Romana of the Western hemisphere through Rome signified a trans-regional order based on rules and regulations. This orderly world of the Pax Sinica generated a number of positive results such as the intensification of travel, ever-expanding trade relations, an increase in the overall living standards of the populace, the proliferation of cities, and a demographic upsurge in Eurasia along the ancient Silk Road. During this period, China was the dominant civilization not only in the Eastern hemisphere but also in the Middle hemisphere due to its political, economic, military and cultural influence. This paper aims to reintroduce this historiographical term to elucidate the recent Chinese initiatives in Eurasia along the Silk Road to facilitate the integration and connectivity of the continent.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.187-198
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• 2020

This paper is devoted to the examination of the identity of the Sogdian descendants and their historical role in the second millennium CE. More specifically, it discusses the Sogdian connection to the later Iranic-speaking peoples of Central Asia, namely, the Sarts and the Tajiks. It then discusses the symbiotic relationship between the Sogdian descendants and the Mongols and the Mongol descendants (Chaghatays and Uzbeks) in Central Asia. In sum, this paper argues that the Sogdians did not perish after the Arab conquest of Central Asia in the eighth century CE. They survived under new exonyms Sart and Tajik. Like the Sogdians in pre-Islamic Central Asia, the Tajiks or Sarts played important historical roles in the Mongol and post-Mongol states of Central Asia, maintaining a symbiotic relationship with the nomad elites.

• Acta Via Serica
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2020

The paper discusses how the new EU Strategy towards Central Asia issued in May 2019 might be analyzed through the lens of the intensely debated transformations from the liberal to a post-liberal international order. The author claims that the EU's normative power is transforming from the post-Cold War predominantly liberal/ value-based approach, with democracy and human rights at its core, to a set of more technical tools and principles of good governance and effective management of public administration. The paper problematizes a nexus between the dynamics of the EU's nascent post-liberalism and the geopolitical challenges of the EU's growing engagement with illiberal regimes, focuses on direct encounters between the post-liberal EU and the illiberal elites in Central Asia, and seeks to find out the impact of these connections upon the EU's international subjectivity. In this context geopolitical dimensions of EU foreign and security policies, along with the specificity of the EU's geopolitical actorship in Central Asia, are discussed.