Hanmun Workshop

This introductory course on Hanmun texts were intended for graduate students who are pursuing research projects related to pre-20th century topics or who have their roots in pre-20th century times on the Korean peninsula. This course aimed to introduce students with knowledge of the Korean language to the main features of the application of Chinese ideograms to Korean and the Korean peninsula. For this purpose, the structure of Chinese ideograms, hanja in Korean, was presented and the grammatical basis of hanmun was discussed.

The course started on December 15th and was structured in 5 sessions in which texts in classical Chinese and Hanmun have been worked on in a progressively more difficult way. The dynamics of the course has been focused on personal work by the students on the proposed texts. On the day of the face-to-face meeting, the different translation options and interpretations proposed by the students have been discussed until a satisfactory interpretation of the text is reached. Each face-to-face session will last 2 hours.

Professor: Luis Botella

Sessions (10:00-12:00)

Session 1 (December 15th): Introduction

Session 2 (December 22th): 계몽편, 수편 (1)

Session 3 (January 10th): 계몽편, the continuation (2)

Session 4 (January 17th): Rouzer, Unit 1-2

Session 5 (January 24): Rouzer, Unit 3-4

Registration by mail: @asiaoriental@uma.es