Field Research on the Deaf situations in Asia

本研究以中韩两国聋人及其手语为研究对象。这里要讨论的主要项目如下：残疾人福利法；2.聋人社会；3.聋人教育；4.信息保障；韩国手语（KSL）和中国手语（CSL）录像带。在韩国，针对聋人的福利法律正在迅速发展。这源于聋人协会的有效行动。虽然他们的活动部分模仿了日本聋人联合会的活动，但他们有许多比日本更先进的活动，他们对加入一般社会的态度非常积极。他们尤其关注聋人教育问题，特别是聋人高等教育问题。在中国，改革开放后，残疾人的基本权利得到法律保障，残疾人的生存环境得到改善。然而，手语翻译的培训体系并不完善。就对外汉语而言，由于国家幅员辽阔，人口众多，聋哑人有很多方言。这使得他们很难修复标准CSL。但他们正在研究方言的多样性，并试图克服阻碍他们标准化手语的问题。通过这项研究，它已经清楚地表明，聋人正在朝着解决他们所面临的政治、法律、教育和语言问题的方向发展。为了制作“亚洲聋人及其手语信息百科全书”，必须在亚洲其他国家进行进一步的研究。

In this research, the situations of deaf people and their sign language in Korea and China were investigated. The main items to be discussed here are as follows:1.welfare laws for disabled people, 2.deaf society, 3.education for the deaf, 4.information guarantee, 5.video tapes recording Korean Sign Language(KSL) and Chinese Sign Language(CSL).In Korea, welfare laws for the deaf have been progressing rapidly. This comes from the effective actions of the Deaf Association. Although they partly modeled their activities on those of the Japanese Federation of the Deaf, they have many activities which are further advanced than those in Japan and their attitude on joining the general society is very positive. Especially, they have turned their attention towards deaf education problems, particularly those of tertiary level education for deaf people.In China, after the reform and liberation, laws for disabled people have assured their fundamental rights and their living environment has taken a favorable turn. However, the training system of sign language interpreters is not working well. Concerning CSL, because of the huge national land area and population, deaf people have a lot of dialects. This makes it difficult for them to fix Standard CSL. But they are researching the diversity of dialects and trying to overcome the problems blocking their attempt to standardize their sign language.Through this research, it has been clearly shown that deaf people are moving towards solutions for the political, legal, educational, and linguistic problems they are facing. In order to produce the "Information Encyclopedia on Asian Deaf People and Their Sign Languages, " further research has to be carried out in other Asian countries.