UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RESEARCH GRANTS FOR LIBRARIANS PROGRAM
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INSTRUCTIONS: The applicant(s) must submit two (2) copies of their proposal. Applicants send 1 (one) printed copy of this form, accompanied with the body of the proposal, which constitute an application packet to the Chair of the division Research Committee, who forwards the packet to the Chair of the University-wide Committee. Applicants must also submit a second copy of the proposal electronically as an email attachment to the Chair of the divisional research committee who will forward on to the Chair of the University-wide Committee.
DATE OF APPLICATION: January 5, 2005
TITLE OF PROPOSAL/PROJECT: The Phase II of the Korean Diaspora: An Annotated Bibliography and Its Database,
EXPECTED LENGTH OF PROJECT: Eight months to accomplish research and complete database annotations
TOTAL FUNDS REQUESTED FROM LAUC UNIVERSITY-WIDE RESEARCH FUNDS: $5,878.00
PRIMARY APPLICANT:
YOUR NAME: Jaeyong Chang
(Include your signature on paper copy)
ACADEMIC RANK & WORKING TITLE: Associate Librarian for the Korean Collection
UNIT/NON-UNIT MEMBER: Unit member
CAMPUS SURFACE MAIL ADDRESS: East Asian Library, 208 Durant Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720
TELEPHONE & EMAIL ADDRESS: 510-643-0652 &
ABSTRACT OF PROPOSAL: (Do not exceed space available in this space)
This project is to research periodicals and monographs, as well as literary works, published in the Korean language and then to construct a bibliographically annotated database to be available on the Internet freely, using the East Asian Library server. The project will help scholars in the UC-system and improve the UC-system’s library and information services available to all users via the Internet.
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LAUC Research Grant (2004)
Primary Applicant: Jaeyong Chang
Amount of the fund: $4,346
BUDGET SUMMARY
Note: This Budget Summary should be based on the detailed
statement from the body of your proposal (part 5). Do not
include budget items funded by sources other than LAUC
Statewide Research Funds in this Summary.
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM LAUC STATEWIDE RESEARCH FUNDS:
$5,878.00
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED FROM LAUC DIVISIONAL RESEARCH FUNDS:
$0.00
OTHER FUNDING OBTAINED OR EXPECTED (AMOUNT AND SOURCE):
FISCAL YEAR OF APPLICATION: 2005/2006
NEW PROJECT? (YES/NO): No
SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDING? (YES/NO): Yes. (I will request a supplemental funding to maintain a web-based database for my project to the Center for Korean Studies, UC-Berkeley.)
SALARIES: $1,200.00
TOTAL SALARIES: $1,200.00
SUPPLIES: $0.00
TOTAL SUPPLIES: $0.00
TRAVEL: $4,178.00
TOTAL TRAVEL: $4,178.00
OTHER EXPENSES: $500.00
TOTAL OTHER EXPENSES: $500.00
TOTAL REQUESTED FROM LAUC STATEWIDE RESEARCH FUNDS: $5,878.00
Background
With the support of a LAUC research grant for the year 2003–4, I was able to make a research trip to northeast China during the summer of 2004. The purpose of the trip, as noted in my proposal for the grant, was to seek out periodicals and monographs, as well as literary works, published in the Korean language in northeast China. My ultimate goal is to compile a bibliographic reference work concerning the Korean diaspora.
I have two general conclusions concerning the trip. First, I should have made the trip earlier. Some publications have already been discontinued or are unavailable. While people can speak of their publication, lack of complete bibliographical records makes all but impossible any reliable identification of these publications. Second, even late, the trip was worthwhile since it allowed me to establish connections with scholars and professionals in the publishing world that will prove invaluable, with respect to both my current project and future acquisitions.
During the course of my trip, I learned that since the 1945 liberation of Korea, about 600 monograph titles have been published by 7 publishing companies; 5 newspapers are currently in circulation, while 35 others have been repeatedly circulated, discontinued, and subsequently revived; 14 periodicals are currently being issued, while 26 others have been repeatedly issued, discontinued, and subsequently revived. The subject matter of the publications ranges from literature to education, politics, economics, agriculture, and engineering. The target audience is similarly diverse, encompassing scholars, adults, youths, and women.
More significantly, I learned that Korean language publishing in northeast China falls into four distinct periods. The first period dates up to 1945, and was initiated by the first generation of Koreans who moved into northeast China with the intention of gaining independence from Japan. The second period, from 1945 to 1965, was driven by the subsequent generation of settlers, who can be said to have had a Chinese-Korean identity. The third period, from 1966 to 1978, could be characterized as a time of hardship, coinciding as it did with the Chinese Cultural Revolution. The Chinese government forced most of the Korean language publishing companies in the northeast to close down during this time. The fourth period, from 1979 up to the present, has been a period of revitalization, with the number of Korean language newspapers in circulation reaching 35 at times.
Completion of the first phase of the project has allowed me to begin selecting title and bibliographical information to be entered into a database. Due to budget limitation, the data has not yet been input.
Purpose
The second phase of my research for the work on the Korean publishing diaspora will take me to two former Soviet republics, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, to seek out publishers of monographs, periodicals, and literature, as I did in northeast China. The results of my research will be summarized in a database with bibliographic annotations and posted on the Internet, using the East Asian Library server.
I had originally proposed this trip last year, in conjunction with my trip to northeast China, but was granted funds sufficient only for the trip to northeast China. I am now applying for funds for a trip to Central Asia because I consider such a trip indispensable. Of the three million Koreans living outside Korea in Asia, two million reside in China and one million in Central Asia.
The purpose of the Korean diaspora project is two-fold: to provide bibliographic support to scholars in specifically related disciplines within the U.C. system; and generally to improve the support provided students and scholars in indirectly related disciplines, such as comparative politics, linguistics, history, sociology, and anthropology.
The Korean diaspora is primary among the research topics being pursued by scholars connected to U.C. Berkeley’s Center for Korean Studies. In a report submitted to the Korea Foundation in 2003 by Prof. John Lie, Dean of International and Area Studies wrote:
We hope to develop three programmatic strengths. First, we hope to become a major center of Korean diaspora studies. The study of overseas Korean[s], long neglected, demonstrates that Korea has always been, so to speak, already globalized. . . . We cannot but take cognizance of the widespread dispersal of ethnic Koreans not just in North America but in virtually every part of the world.”[1]
In addition, in April 2003, UCLA held a conference entitled “100 Years of Korean American Experience: Historical Perspectives and Historical Materials” with the general purpose of studying the background of the Korean diaspora and airing scholarly exchange on topics ranging from the social sciences to humanities.
With the development of China’s new economy, the collapse of the USSR, and the emergence of sovereignty among the Central Asian breakaway republics since the 1990s, research on the Korean diaspora has gained ground. During the past ten years, the number of well-received publications has increased. Publications such as “The Korean Diaspora in the World Economy” (2003), edited by Fred Bergsten and Inbom Choi, and “The Korean Diaspora and Korean Ethnic Identity from the Global Perspective”, by In-jin Yoon, deal with the topic from the broad viewpoint of economics and anthropology. Recent articles concerning the Korean diaspora and the diaspora in China include “Diaspora Koreans in China: An Introduction,” by Edward Taehan Chang, associate professor of Ethnic Studies and former director of the Center for Asian Pacific America at U.C. Riverside; and “Ethnicity as Political Instrument among the Koreans of Northeast China,” by Bernard Olivier. Recent articles about the Korean community in the former Soviet Union include “The Deportation of 1937 as a Local Continuation of Tsarist and Soviet Nationality Policy in the Russian Far East,” by German Kim, and “The Language Policy in Central Asia,” by Sung-chol Ho.
These publications demonstrate modern scholars’ interest and research activity in the field of the Korean diaspora from a range of viewpoints. Unfortunately, these scholars historically have been limited to consulting research materials available in the United States and South Korea even while the focus of their research has been the Korean diaspora, including the diaspora in China and the former Soviet Union. A bibliographic study and systematic analysis of existing Korean-language periodicals and monographs in China and the former USSR is very much needed. Such a work would be a milestone in the field. The annotated bibliography I propose compiling and making available over the Internet would provide users of the U.C. system library and information services a unique resource.
Methodology
The first part of the second phase of this project will require a research trip to Tashkent, in Uzbekistan, and Almaty, in Kazakhstan, where over 90% of the Chinese-Korean and 80% of the “Soviet-Korean” (a term not redefined since the fall of the USSR) are living. Visiting leading scholars, libraries, publishers, and research institutions in the field will allow me to document thoroughly unique resources previously known only to those who had traveled to Central Asia.
In Almaty, Prof. German Kim, chair of the Department of Korean Studies, Kazakh State National Al-Farabi University, will assist me in my research. This recently published “The History, Culture, and Languages of Koryo Saram” presents a general historiographical and bibliographical sketch of the pre-Revolutionary, Soviet, and international scholarly literature on Koreans living in the former Soviet Union. It has been difficult to draw up a tentative schedule of other scholars or sites to visit because of the geographical distances, information gaps, poor communications common in Central Asia. I am currently trying to contact the publisher of the Korean weekly Koryo Ilbosa in Almaty and Association of the Korean Culture in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. I will continue to attempt to establish other contacts before traveling to Central Asia.
The second part of this phase of the project will be the creation of a database accessible over the Internet via the East Asian Library’s server. It will include an annotated bibliography of Korean language materials published in China and the former Soviet Union. Using Microsoft Access, I will first input bibliographical data that I have and will have collected on my trips. The database will basically be composed of a table, including author as the primary key, title, publisher, publication year, and holding information; a form to input the data; another form to show search results. I will then provide the databases on Internet by decoding and compiling the data, using ASP (Active Server Pages) to establish contact between the database and the Internet. Thereafter, the database will be searchable by author, title, publisher, year, and holdings information in North America.
The database will be updated periodically. Maintenance of the web-based database will be performed twice a year, and new bibliographical information will also be added at that time. For this, I will request supplemental funding from the Center for Korean Studies, U.C. Berkeley. I will also present my project proposal at the next annual Committee on East Asian Libraries conference.
Timetable for completion of this project
July, 2005 Preparation for research trip including researching more bibliographical information and arranging schedules with visitors
August or September, 2005 Research trip
October - December, 2005 Analysis of collected information
January - April, 2006 Constructing and uploading a database
Budget
Travel
Airfare
San Francisco – Tashkent (round trip) =$1,550.00
Tashkent – Almaty (round trip) =$250.00
Meal & Accommodation[2]
Tashkent, Uzbekistan $178 @ 5 nights =$890.00
Almaty, Kazakhstan $248 @ 5 nights = $1,488.00
Travel Total = $4,178.00
Salary
A student will be hired to input bibliographical data for the annotated bibliography.
Student 100 hours per hour ($12.00) = $1200.00
Other expenses
Acquisition and copy of some sample materials will be needed.
Materials and copy = $500.00
Total anticipated expense $5,878.00
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SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET INFORMATION
This Sheet Must Accompany the Grant Application
PER DIEM
Please indicate the source of the per diem rates used in the application
a. Federal Government
b. University
c. Other ______
d. Other ______
Location Rate Source
1. Tashkent, Uzbekistan $890.00 ($178 @ 5 nights) A
2. Almaty, Kazakhstan $1,488.00 ($248 @ 5 nights) A
This per diem includes accommodation and meals.
TRAVEL
Please indicate the source of the travel information used in the application
a. Federal Government
b. University
c. Internet Search (list which service used)______
d. Travel Agency
e. Other ______
Location Type Amount Rate Source
1 Tashkent Air $1,550.00 D
2. Almaty Air $250.00 D
Jae-Yong Chang