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engagement collaborateur

English translation: collaborationist sympathies


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French term or phrase:engagement collaborateur
English translation:collaborationist sympathies
Entered by: Mark Nathan
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13:35 Apr 9, 2011
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Social Sciences - Government / Politics / Review of South Korean culture
French term or phrase: engagement collaborateur
Font figure d’aînés, Ch’oe Namsôn (1890-1957) en poésie, Yi Kwangsu (1892-1945) en prose et Yi Injik (1862-1916) pour le théâtre. Influencés par le social darwinisme diffusé dans tout l’Extrême-Orient par le Chinois Liang Qichao, ces trois auteurs proposent des solutions que tous vont reprendre malgré leur engagement collaborateur.

This is from the Michelin Green Guide to South Korea. It is part of a very quick review of the whole of Korean culture. This is in a subsection of "la littérature moderne", entitled "le tournant".
Mark Nathan
Local time: 18:08
collaborationist sympathies
Explanation:
my take
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polyglot45
Grading comment
Thanks everyone
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Summary of answers provided
3 +2collaborationist sympathiespolyglot45
4collaborationist activitiescc in nyc
3pro-Japanese activities
Leslie Marcus


  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
pro-Japanese activities


Explanation:
I'm basing this suggestion on what I read about Ch’oe Namsôn in Wikipedia and the fact that I don't like the word "collaboration"

Leslie Marcus
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Local time: 18:08
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  cc in nyc: Like it or not, "collaborateur" is what we have in the source text and – according to the Wiki – Choe was indeed arrested for collaboration with the Japanese (and then released for health reasons).
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
collaborationist sympathies


Explanation:
my take

polyglot45
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
Thanks everyone

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Catharine Cellier-Smart: for me this is more about "sympathies" than "activities". See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinilpa
19 hrs
agree  LaraBarnett
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18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
collaborationist activities


Explanation:
Or perhaps, more simply, collaboration.

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Note added at 4 hrs (2011-04-09 18:19:37 GMT)
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@ Asker – Good idea! So perhaps expand the term to collaboration with the Japanese.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choe_Nam-seon
    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yi_Kwang-su
cc in nyc
Local time: 12:08
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 15
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yes, this would be perfectly correct, but I wonder if it might not be more helpful/informative to say something along the lines of Leslie's suggestion.

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Changes made by editors
Apr 9, 2011 - Changes made by writeaway:
FieldArt/Literary => Social Sciences
Apr 9, 2011 - Changes made by writeaway:
Field (specific)Poetry & Literature => Government / Politics


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