Yang Hi Choe-Wall

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Yang Hi Choe-Wall
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Yang Hi Choe-Wall in Sydney, 2011
Born1932 (age 9192)
NationalitySouth Korean–Australian
Occupation(s)Writer, researcher and academic
Known forKorean classical literature
Korean name
Hangul
최양희
Hanja
崔洋姬
Revised Romanization Choe Yanghui
McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Yanghŭi

Yang Hi Choe-Wall (Korean : 최양희; born 1932) is a South Korean and Australian academic, writer and researcher specialising in Korean literature of Chosŏn period (1392–1910). She was Associate Professor in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, the Australian National University. Choe-Wall is the winner of the 2013 Daesan Literary Awards, who is now retired and living in Canberra, Australia. [1]

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Career

Choe-Wall's undergraduate studies led to a BA (Hons) in English Language and Literature, following which she took up an appointment with Hongik University (Seoul), as a lecturer in English language.

In September 1965, Choe-Wall moved to Australia with her young daughter (Miki Wick-Kim) and son (Dai-Kyu Kim), having accepted an appointment with The Australian National University in Canberra as librarian of the Japanese collection in the Menzies Library, the university's principal research library.

Choe-Wall received her Master of Arts degree in Asian Studies from the Australian National University in 1974. Her thesis Hanjung-nok: Memoirs of a Yi Dynasty Court Lady was later published as Memoirs of a Korean Queen. [2] In 1980 she did her Graduate Diploma in Library and Information Science at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. Choe-Wall was awarded her PhD in Asian Studies (Sino-Korean Literature) from the Australian National University in 1985. Her PhD thesis was Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn (Heo Nanseolheon) and Her Hanshi – A study of the life and work of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn – a late sixteenth-century Korean poet. This was published as Vision of a Phoenix. [2]

In 1984 she was appointed lecturer in Korean at the Australian National University. [3] This was followed by an appointment as Fellow / Associate Professor of the Australian National University in 1993. [4] She retired from the Australian National University in 1996, but as a Visiting Fellow of the University continued to work on the Encyclopaedia of Korea as Project Director and Chief Compiler until 1999. [4] In 2013, she became a member of The Australian National University Emeritus Faculty.[ citation needed ]

Dr Yang Hi Choe-Wall's main research interest is the Korean literature of the Joseon period. She has published extensively and presented many papers on this subject at international conferences of Korean Studies, including the XXXII International Congress for Asia and North African Studies, Hamburg, 1986; The First Pacific Basin International Conference on Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 1992; The 1993 International Korean Literature Conference, University of California at Berkeley; Translation of Korean Literary Works and their Diffusion in Europe, l'Universite Paris 7, Paris, 1994., etc.[ citation needed ]

Awards

Selected works

OCLC/WorldCat Identities overview statistics for writings by and about Yang Hi Choe-Wall include approximately 19 works in 61 publications in 3 languages and 2,294 + library holdings. The books have been published primarily in English, but also in Korean and French. [2]

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References

  1. "Choe-Wall, Yang-hi - Full record view - Libraries Australia Search". librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Choe-Wall, Yang-hi [WorldCat Identities]".
  3. http://about.anu.edu/profile-annual [ dead link ]
  4. 1 2 Foster, Stephen; Varghese, Margaret (2009). The Making of The Australian National University. ANU Press. p. 388. doi: 10.22459/MANU.08.2009 . ISBN   978-1-921536-63-2.
  5. Literature Translation Institute of Korea (http://www.klti.or.kr/eng)
  6. Encyclopaedia of Korea. The Australian National University. 13 September 2013. hdl:1885/10445.