Yang Hi Choe-Wall

Yang Hi Choe-Wall (; born 1932) is a Korean 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.National Library of Australia-Libraries Australia Authorities- Choe-Wall, Yang-hi

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Early years

Yang Hi Choe-Wall was born in Seoul, Korea, the fourth child of a family of six children.

Choe-Wall grew up in Seoul during the Japanese annexation of Korea and remained in that city during the Korean War (1950–1953). She attended primary and early part of secondary schools in Seoul, where all subjects were taught in the Japanese language until 1945. Despite the many privations and upsets that befell the family during the two wars, it held together and some of Choe-Wall's siblings became senior academics both in America and France.

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''. 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''
with the book now in its 4th edition.

In 1984 she was appointed lecturer in Korean at the Australian National University.http://about.anu.edu/profile-annual This was followed by an appointment as Fellow / Associate Professor of the Australian National University.http://epress.anu.edu.au?p=31641 The Making of the Australian National University, 1946–1996, p.388. in 1993. 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.
In 2013, became a member of The Australian National University Emeritus Faculty.

Dr Yang Hi Choe-Wall's main research interest is the Korean literature of Chosŏn (1392-1910). 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.

Awards

* The 2005 Korean Literature Translation Award for her work ''Vision of a Phoenix''.
* The 2013 Daesan Literary Awards for her work ''The Jehol Diary''.

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.

* ''Memoirs of a Korean Queen'', London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985. .
* ''The Korea Fact Book'' (co-authored with Ray Wall and Stephen Wall), Sydney, Doubleday, 1988. .
* ''오스트레일리아의 역사'', (co-translated with 문우상 of ''A Short History of Australia'' by Manning Clark, Penguin, 1986), Seoul, Eulyoo Publishing Co., 1990.
* ''Mémoires d'une reine de Corée'', (translated by Claude Bouygues of ''Memoirs of a Korean Queen'' by Yang Hi Choe-Wall), Paris, Éditions Philippe Picquier, 1996. .
* ''Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn'' (''Cornell East Asia Series'', 117), Ithaca, New York, Cornell University, 2003. hc.
* ''Memoirs of the Red Queen'', London, Kegan Paul, 2004. .
* ''The Jehol Diary" (Chapter 1–3 of ''Yŏrha ilgi'' by Pak Chiwŏn, (1737–1805), translated with introduction and notes, Folkestone (UK), Global Oriental and Leiden, Brill Publishers, 2010. .
* ''The Encyclopaedia of Korea'' (1999), ANU – Digital Collections: Open Access Research, Canberra,, Australian National University, 2013.,
* "The Sino-Korean Poetic Tradition of the Late 16th Century". ''East Asian History'' (''Papers on Far Eastern History''), The Australian National University's Department of Far Eastern History, March 1986, Vol. 33, pp. 139–157.
* "The Poetic thought of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn: the renowned Sino-Korean Poetess". ''East Asian History'' (''Papers on Far Eastern History''), The Australian National University's Department of Far Eastern History, 1987, Vol.36, pp. 93–108.
* "The Impact of Taoism on the Literature of Mid-Chosŏn, 1568–1724" ''Korean Studies: New Pacific Currents'', Honolulu, Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawaii, 1994, pp. 113–124. .
* "최양희:''한중록''의 영역에 부쳐", ''한국문학의 외국어 번역:현황과 전망'', Seoul, 민음사, 1997, pp. 27–43. .
* "나의 아버지 최재서 (Jaisou Choe)". ''대산문화'', Seoul, The Daesan Foundation, 2014, Vol. 51, pp. 138–142. .
* MA thesis: ''Hanjung-nok: Memoirs of a Yi Dynasty Court Lady, ''Canberra, The Australian National University, 1974.   Choe-Wall, Yang Hi– Open Access Theses and Dissertations, Center for Research Libraries (www.crl.edu).
* Ph D thesis: ''Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn (Heo Nanseolheon) and Her Hanshi – A study of the life and work of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn – a late sixteenth-century Korean poet, ''Canberra, The Australian National University, 1984.   Choe-Wall, Yang Hi– Open Access Theses and Dissertations, Center for Research Libraries.(http://bibpurl.oclc.org/web/34429 )
* Arirang (TV network

– interview with Choe-Wall, Yang Hi / Stephen Epstein (2007).

References

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1932 births
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