[KS] Classical Chinese in Korea

[Joerg Plassen]

Dear Ms. Gubic,

Being located at Heidelberg, you might wish to contact the Korean 
Studies Department at Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum. - The usually very 
helpful colleagues have been working on several of the issues you 
addresed (also in a project on the circulation of knowledge).

Sincerely,
joerg plassen


p.s.:
May I ask you who is your supervisor? - To my best knowledge, there is 
no KS department at Heidelberg yet. Also, there are only a handful of KS 
scholars who have the necessary background in Early ChosOn, KoryO and 
Silla writing systems to be able to tackle such an ambitious "through 
the ages" project.



> >  From:gubic at asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
> >  To:koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws
> >  Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:21:00 +0100
> >  Subject: [KS] Classical Chinese in Korea
> >
> >  Dear members of the list,
> >
> >  I am a graduate student working within a project that deals with a wide range of issues pertaining to the mechanisms behind the adoption, preservation and adaptation (in terms of institutions, primers, lexicography, attempts at 'hybrid' writing systems, etc.) of Classical Chinese in Korea throughout the ages.
> >
> >  I, myself, am particularly interested in the interplay of hanmun and hangul writings, especially in the processes of translation between the two and the existence of both hanmun and hangul versions of many literary works. This interest then inevitably includes glossaries and dictionaries made for interpreters (but also, for example, for reading Ming/Qing Chinese novels), and the phenomenon of numerous 'onhae' explanatory books.
> >
> >  I am aware of the vagueness of this inquiry, but since I have only embarked on this research journey recently, I would really appreciate any hints to scholarly works that might have touched upon these issues or set me in the right direction.
> >
> >  Many thanks and kind regards,
> >
> >  Ivana Gubic
> >  PhD Candidate
> >  Heidelberg University