About the conference

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 four conferences, the fifth one will be held at Seoul, South Korea, in mid-July 2014.

1. 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.
2. Researches on Han character: including history of Han character, philology of Han character, theoretical framework, annotation, study of Han character etc.

• Korea Society of Education in Chinese Characters and Classics,
• Society for Korean Classical Chinese Education,
• Centre for Advancement of Chinese Language Education and Research (CACLER), Faculty of Education, The Univerity of Hong Kong,
• Ethnic Chinese Classic Texts and Characters Research Centre, Beijing Normal University, People’s Republic of China,
• The Society of Korean literature in Classical Chinese,
• Institute of Chinese characters & Korean literature in classical Chinese, Korea University,
• Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second / Foreign Language; National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
• Graduate Institute of Chinese Classics, National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan
• Department of Applied Chinese and Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan and
• Department of Language and Literature, National Taitung University, Taiwan