[KS] Announcement of Lecture on Korean Sources

[Song-am Song]

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
at the University of California at Berkeley
presentsa lecture by

KI JOONG SONG

Professor of Linguistics, Seoul National University
and Visiting Professor, Department of EALC, Fall 2000

KOREAN SOURCES FOR HISTORICAL
STUDIES OF CHINA, JAPAN
AND OTHER AREAS

Many extant pre-modern Korean works are well known to scholars of Chinese, 
Japanese and other areas of Asia. This talk concerns other works that have 
not drawn atteention as valuable research sources.  A partial list of Korean 
publications which could be helpful in historical investigations of the 
cultures of countries neighboring Korea are introduced under the following 
categories:

1. Language and Writings: traditional study of rhymes, spoken Mandarin of 
the Yuan, Ming, and Qing periods, glossaries of clerkly writing and 
vernacular literature, colloquial Japanese of 17th-19th centuries, 
Mongolian, Manchu, study of archaic Chinese writing.

2. Chinese Literature: Korean translations and annotations to Tang poetry 
and translations of Chinese novels.

3. Society and History: Chinese society during the Yuan, Ming, and Qing 
periods; Japanese society of the 15th-18th centuries; the rise of Manchu 
power and the early history of Qing, etc.

4. Confucianism and  Buddhism: 15th-18th century Korean annotations and 
interpretations of the Confucian classics and the Buddhist scriptures.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2000
12 NOON
1229 DWINELLE