[KS] "The Origins of the Korean Alphabet"

[Frank Hoffmann]

PS .. the solution to everything ::)

I like to add that 鄭基元 also co-authored, also in 1938, a short piece 
on "Arab Geographers on Korea" (_Journal of the American Oriental 
Society_ 58, no. 4, Dec. 1938): 658-661.
All that taken together shows a strong interest in connecting Korea to 
other regions of Asia and the Middle East, and that was quite popular 
in the 1930s! Right now I have a 20-pages dissertation application from 
the U of Leipzig on my desk -- fro the mid-1920s--by a Korean scholar 
who had also studied Sanskrit and was studying relations between China 
and India, among other issues. The total focus on "Korea only" and 
Korea only within the "confinement" of the East Asian world order, I 
think that came in only in the late colonial period and afterwards, as 
a reaction to (a) the political world order (colonialism etc.) and (b) 
because, again those bad bad Germany-Maniacs with their manipulating 
studies of such issues had kind kind of stopped any research and 
interest into that direction.

Anyway, here is the solution for today's quizz:
http://library.ias.edu/files/pdfs/bulletins/Bulletin11.pdf
That is a Princeton U publication from 1945 that has a list of 
institute "members" -- look at page the ix:
You see KEI-WON CHUNG listed with a 1938 Princeton dissertation. 
He is further indentified on page 35 (send last page): "Since February, 
1943, Dr. Chung Kei-won, who has pursued his study in Far Easten 
languages in the Library for several years, has been on leave of 
absense for government war work, first in New York City and later in 
Washington, D.C."
There is no doubt by whom this thesis is!

Frank 


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Frank Hoffmann
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