Objectives
The sharing and variations of Han Character is a unique feature among a number of Asian languages. Korean learns Hanja, Japanese learns Kanji, Chinese in Mainland China and Singapore learns simplified Hanzi while Chinese in Taiwan and Hong Kong learns traditional Hanzi. This Conference aims to bring together scholars, researchers and practitioners from different Asian countries to foster international knowledge exchanges and research collaborations on Han characters education and research. Building upon accomplishments and successes in the first eight conferences, the nineth one will be held in Vietnam in mid of January 2019.
Conference Date: 19- 21 January 2019 (Sat ~ Mon)
Conference Venue: Ho Chi Minh City University of Education (280 An Duong Vuong, Phuong 4, Quan 5, Hochiminh City- Vietnam)
Themes
- Han character education: including theoretical framework, teaching and learning materials, pedagogical strategies, information technology in Han character education; classical Chinese or literary Chinese and so on.
- Researches on Han character: including history of Han character, philology of Han character, theoretical framework, annotation, study of Han character etc.
- Other related areas: research on Chinese language teaching and Chinese linguistics
The Conference is co-hosted by:
Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, Vietnam
Department of Chinese, Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
Han Character Education Research Center, Dankook University, South Korea
The Korea association for Han-Character and classical written language education, South Korea
Society for Korean Classical Chinese Education, South Korea
The Society of Education for Translation and Cultural Studies in Japan and Chinese, Japan