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The Department of Asia in the British Museum holds one of the largest collections of historical objects from Asia. These collections comprise over 75,000 objects covering the material culture of the Asian continent (including East Asia, South and Central Asia, and Southeast Asia), and dating from the Neolithic age up to the present day.
[9] Smith has defended her translation, stating. To say that my English translation of The Vegetarian is a “completely different book” from the Korean original is, of course, in one sense, entirely correct. Since there is no such thing as a truly literal translation — no two languages’ grammars match, their vocabularies diverge, even ...
Portal worked as Curator of Chinese and Korean Collections at the British Museum, 1987–2008, creating the Korea Foundation Gallery (the museum's first gallery of Korean art) in 2000. In 2001 and 2002, she made two visits to North Korea , following the establishment of diplomatic relations, and started collecting contemporary works from the ...
Chaekgeori screen by Yi Eungrok, 1864-1872, Six-panel chaekgori folding screen, late 1800s. Chaekgeori (Korean: 책거리; Hanja: 冊巨里), translated as "books and things", is a genre of still-life painting from the Joseon period of Korea that features books as the dominant subject. [1]
Jeong Seon (Korean: 정선; 1676 – 20 April 1759) [1] was a Korean landscape painter, also known by the art names Gyeomjae and Nangok.His ja was Wonbaek. His works include ink and oriental water paintings, such as Inwangjesaekdo (1751), Geumgang jeondo (1734), and Ingokjeongsa (1742), as well as numerous "true-view" landscape paintings on the subject of Korea and the history of its culture.
Jikji (Korean: 직지심체요절) is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document whose title can be translated to "Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings". [1] Printed during the Goryeo Dynasty in 1377, it is the world's oldest extant book printed with movable metal type .
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Finkel spent three years as a Research Fellow at the University of Chicago Oriental Institute.In 1976 he returned to the UK, and was appointed Assistant Keeper in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities at the British Museum, where he was (and remains) responsible for curating, reading and translating the museum's collection of around 130,000 cuneiform tablets.