{"title":"Birth of a Monster Story on the Borderlands: The “Big People” (Chōjin) Legend in 8th-Century Silla","authors":"Lee, Knott","doi":"10.7221/sjlc02.073.0","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese official historical chronicle Xintang shu 新唐書 (compiled c. 1060), includes a section entitled “An Account of Silla” 新羅伝. As a contemporary historical source recording in detail the domestic affairs of the mid-8th century Korean kingdom Silla 新羅, it is a document that has attracted a good deal of attention over the years. At the same time, however, it also contains a number of indecipherable passages like the following:","PeriodicalId":197397,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Studies in Japanese Literature and Culture","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7221/sjlc02.073.0","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Chinese official historical chronicle Xintang shu 新唐書 (compiled c. 1060), includes a section entitled “An Account of Silla” 新羅伝. As a contemporary historical source recording in detail the domestic affairs of the mid-8th century Korean kingdom Silla 新羅, it is a document that has attracted a good deal of attention over the years. At the same time, however, it also contains a number of indecipherable passages like the following: