사례를 통해서 본 미국 대학에서의 한문 교육

Abstract

This paper provides a general overview of the classical Chinese education in American universities based on the cases of classical Chinese curriculums at four large research universities in the United States. In the recent decade, the main objective of classical Chinese education in the major research universities in North America has shifted from a philological research to a more broadly conceived East Asian Studies. While classical Chinese is still an important requirement for students majoring in Chinese, the courses in classical Chinese, which is now more commonly referred to as literary Chinese, offer a foundation for the studies of East Asia prior to the modern era, and are thus widely available to students in Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese studies. As part of a discussion about this trend in classical Chinese education, the paper also explains some of the ways in which one recently published major textbook in classical Chinese makes literary Chinese accessible to students not only in Chinese but also in other East Asian studies.