Basic Research on the UCB John Fryer Collection

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K00614
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02060:Linguistics-related
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: Chiba Kengo 中央大学, 経済学部, 教授 (70386564)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 中国語学 / ジョン・フライヤー / 蔵書目録 / 翻訳語 / 北京語 / 音訳語 / イソップ / カリフォルニア大学バークレー校

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A detailed catalog of the John Fryer Collection at the East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley, was compiled. We also introduce some of the most important materials for Chinese linguistics, and provide a detailed analysis of the language of the colloquial Mandarin version of the "意拾喩言" in the "京華雑拾". Finally, in order to examine the Flyer's movement to standardize the transliteration of foreign proper names, which played a certain role in the establishment of the modern Chinese language, the Syllabary for the Transfer of Foreign Names, is taken up, and an overall introduction is given, as well as the background of the manuscript, an estimation of the date of its completion, and an estimation of its editor. We also attempted to estimate the basic dialects of the transliterated Chinese characters, and further analyzed the characteristics of the transliterated characters.

Free Research Field

中国語学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

海外資料を調査し、その網羅的な目録を編纂・公開することでカリフォルニア大学バークレー校に蔵されるジョン・フライヤー文庫の価値を広く知らしめ、また検索に大きな便宜を提供した。そこに蔵される資料を実際に紹介・分析することによりフライヤー文庫が有する資料的価値が理解された。また、資料の分析により19世紀後半の北京語資料として新たな文献を追加することができた。