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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">Dear
Professor Schmid and all,</span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">First
of all, thank you for brining this topic. I’m currently preparing
for my
dissertation on book circulations and production of literature,
ex. hansi, in
the 18th century. I’m in the beginning stage of my research and
hope to learn
from many other advanced scholars by sharing my idea. </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">For
my research, I plan to consider these subtopics: (1) travel
writings to
Beijing, Yonhaengnok (</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">燕行錄</span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US">) for the book (and painting) acquisition
records in Beijing, (2) distribution of poetry communities in
Seoul, for tracking
down the communication routes and their reading and sharing
practices; for
example, Park Chiwon groups and Yi Dokmu groups (3) social network
analysis and
GIS, as methodologies, in order to find any patterns and to map
their
communication modes, and (4) finally, paradigm shift and change of
aesthetic
taste of late Choson literati, if I can find any..</span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">The
reason I didn’t include the market issue in this lineup is that,
first of all, from
my limited knowledge, I observe that informal and community level
circulation/sharing was much more commonplace (and important) than
commercial
circulations, at least in the case of production of knowledge and
book
circulations. By the same token, manuscripts/handwriting practices
played a quite
bigger role than the government oriented printing business. This
“fluidity”
issue could be considered, of course, just as generic nature of
textual
production/transmission and also there would be much more
complexity in the
canon formation process, but I think local level sharing should be
included in
our consideration to picture the circulation practice of the 18<sup>th</sup>
C.</span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">Secondly,
as Professor Ledyard mentioned, “trades” with </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US">China</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"> will be
important. It looks like cultural boundaries between </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US">China</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"> and </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US">Korea</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"> were much
more fluid (again), than political boundaries, or than modern ones
drawn from
our perspectives. I haven’t found sufficient Yonhaengnok records
which reveal
exact prices for the items traded between Chinese and Korean
during the
yonhaeng, but still noticed “exchange” was commonplace, in various
quite
private unofficial levels. </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">For
the resources, I’ve mostly consulted individual collections,
Munjip, and Yonhaengnok
records. I hope to learn more about this topic. I’m in the
beginning stage of
my study and feel rather puzzled to get an overall picture of the
past. </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">Best
Wishes, </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">Jamie
Jungmin Yoo</span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">Ph.D.
candidate</span>
<br>
<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman";" lang="EN-US">Harvard</span><span style="font-size:
11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Times New Roman";"
lang="EN-US">University</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;
font-family: "Times New Roman";" lang="EN-US"></span>
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