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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:25 pm Post subject: Late Choson Dynasty through Western Eyes |
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This past semester, several students in my Korean history class digitized some old books on Korea. They need to be proof-read completely, but they are interesting to read. This coming semester, I'm going to have some students do more texts with an OCR (optical character recognition) program, to make them more like an e-book. The books are old enough that they are in the public domain, so no problems with copyright.
http://www.koreanarchery.org/AmericanCruiser.doc American Cruiser in the East (1905), by John D. Ford (USN) (just the chapters on Korea--whole book this fall)
http://www.shinmiyangyo.org/koreaandherneighbours.doc
Korea and Her Neighbours: Volume II(1905), by Isabella Bird Bishop (I'm waiting to receive volume I)
Books on Late Chosŏn found at Project Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13368 Korea�s Fight for Freedom, by F. A. Mckenzie (1920)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/13128/13128-h/13128-h.htm Corea or Cho-sen, by A. Henry Savage Landor (1895)
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12048/12048-h/12048-h.htm Our Little Korean Cousin, by Henry Lee Mitchell Pike (1905) |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, those are interesting books. I've already put the bottom three up on the wiki but I'll check out the other ones too to see how easy it would be to put them up. I love Gutenberg. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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Besides Volume I of Bishop's book, I also have the 1904 edition of Korean Sketches, by James S. Gale, on order. I'll have everything scanned, OCR'd, and uploaded this fall. My students get extra credit for doing it and interested people world-wide get some interesting reading that they otherwise probably couldn't find. Please, feel free to wikify them  |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| bluelake wrote: |
| Besides Volume I of Bishop's book, I also have the 1904 edition of Korean Sketches, by James S. Gale, on order. I'll have everything scanned, OCR'd, and uploaded this fall. My students get extra credit for doing it and interested people world-wide get some interesting reading that they otherwise probably couldn't find. Please, feel free to wikify them |
Okay, that's great. Actually I was wondering what could be done to get some more cooperation in this area, getting public domain books on Korea typed up somehow and then later wikified by me. We're expanding the wiki into a multilingual one pretty soon so I'll put up that one book on Korea in Dutch as well.
Looking at your sig, I don't suppose you could improve on this article?
http://wiki.galbijim.com/Archery
I just did a search here and there and did what I could but I don't really know anything about it. |
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bluelake
Joined: 01 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah, I can work on it; I have an old article I wrote on it once that could be updated. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Wow! Interesting and informative. Cheers. |
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happeningthang
Joined: 26 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: |
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Reading through one of the articles I had to smile at this one...
ftp://opensource.nchc.org.tw/gutenberg/1/3/1/2/13128/13128-h/13128-h.htm#LIST_OF_PLATES
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| But now let us come to the foreigners stranded in the Corean kingdom. If you take them separately, they are rather nice people, though, of course, at least a dozen years behind time as compared with the rest of the world; taken as a community, however, they are enough to drive you crazy. I do not think that it was ever my good fortune to hear a resident speak well of another resident, this being owing, I dare say, to their seeing too much of one another. If by chance you come across a man occupying only a second-rate official position, you may depend upon it you will see airs! One hardly ventures to address any such personage, for so grand is he that, he will hardly condescend to say "How do you do?" to you, for fear of lowering himself. There are only about four cats in the place, and their sole subject of conversation is precedence and breaches of etiquette, when you would imagine that in such a distant land, and away, so to speak, from the outer world, they would all be like brothers |
Has much changed in 115 years? |
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