[KS] Publication announcement: Central Europeans in Korea

[Schirmer Andreas]

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the completion of Koreans and Central Europeans. This series, of which the third and last volume is now finally out, documents “informal contacts up to 1950” over more than 900 pages. The concluding volume, Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and Many Others, is a multi-perspective compendium of evidence about the astonishingly large number of visitors to Korea from Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland, and Slovenia (or the respective predecessor states) up to the mid-twentieth century.
Carefully researched, spotlighting numerous previously undiscovered sources, and richly illustrated, this volume examines and presents testimonies and traces of these contacts, be they documents, writings, photographs, or works of art. Included are various cases of contact between Koreans and Central Europeans in Korean settlements on Russian or Chinese (or Manchurian) territory. The contact of Austrian prisoners of war and Czechoslovak legionnaires with the Korean diaspora in the Far East forms a rich side story. Overall, this volume bears witness to the history of contact between Koreans and Western travelers and the historical experience of Western expatriates in Korea as still being full of surprises.

Andreas Schirmer (ed.): Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and Many Others. Vienna: Praesens 2020 [= Koreans and Central Europeans: Informal Contacts up to 1950, ed. by Andreas Schirmer; 3]. ISBN 978-3-7069-1105-4 (print), ISBN 978-3-7069-3013-0 (e-book).

Table of Contents
Editor’s Note · ix–xi
Introduction · 1–6 (by Andreas SCHIRMER)
Korean Foreign Relations in Historical Perspective: Austro-Hungarian Ties with Korea · 7–21 (by Hans-Alexander KNEIDER)
Austrian Missionaries in Contact with Koreans, on the Peninsula and Nearby · 23–50 (by Werner KOIDL)
Haas, Rosenbaum, Steinbeck, and Krips: Early Danubians in Chosŏn Korea · 51–79 (by Robert NEFF)
An Austrian Globe-Trotter in Korea in the Wake of the Sino-Japanese War: Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg · 81–105 (by Veronika SHIN)
Hungarian Visitors to Korea up to 1910 · 107–114 (by Mózes CSOMA)
Two Hungarian Hobby Photographers in Old Korea: Ferenc Hopp and Dezső Bozóky · 115–127 (by Beatrix MECSI)
Through the Legionnaire’s Eye: Czech Photographs of Koreans in the Russian Maritime Territory (1918–1920) · 129–145 (by Zdenka KLÖSLOVÁ)
Koreans through the Eyes of Austrian Artists · 147–169 (by Werner KOIDL and Andreas SCHIRMER)
Czech Sketches of Koreans in the Russian Maritime Territory · 171–182 (by Zdenka KLÖSLOVÁ)
An Austrian Photojournalist in Korea, 1911 and 1923: Alice Schalek · 183–205 (by Christian LEWARTH)
Alma Karlin in Korea: Observations of the Land and its People by an Adventurer from Slovenia · 207–222 (by Chikako SHIGEMORI BUČAR)
Hungarian Recognition of the Korean Freedom Struggle, 1920s to 1940s · 223–231 (by Mózes CSOMA)
An Austrian Scientist Charmed by 1930s Korea · 233–244 (by Bill STREIFER)
Austrians in Korea from 1945 to 1953 · 245–280 (by Werner KOIDL and Patrick VIERTHALER)
Late 19th to Mid-20th Century Contacts between Koreans and Poles: A Testament to Mutual Empathy · 281–311 (by LEE Min-heui)
The Life of Francesca Donner-Rhee: A Biographical Sketch of an Austrian who Became South Korea’s First Lady · 313–356 (by Patrick VIERTHALER)
Contributors · 359–361

Thank you for your attention!
Andreas Schirmer

Dr. Andreas Schirmer
Palacky University Olomouc, Department of Asian Studies
andreas.schirmer at upol.cz
* Andreas Schirmer: “Aspects of the Never-Ending Translation Wars in South Korea: A Cultural Phenomenon and its Reasons.” Lebende Sprachen 49 (2020), no. 5: 390–410. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/les-2020-0016
** Park Min-gyu: Entenbootweltbürger und andere Erzählungen aus Südkorea. Aus dem Koreanischen von Andreas Schirmer. Wien: Praesens 2020.
*** Andreas Schirmer (ed.): Central Europeans in Korea: Alice Schalek, Alma Karlin, Fritz Hansgirg, and Many Others. Vienna: Praesens 2020.
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