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The Study of Yingchuangyicao - Focus on the Writer and Printed book

Yoo Hee June 1 Min, Kwan Dong 1

1경희대학교

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ABSTRACT

Yingchuang yicao(《萤窗異草》) is a collection of short stories in Classical Chinese, whose style was much affected by Liaozhai zhiyi(《聊齋志異》). It consists of 3 chapters, 12 juan ,and 138 stories. This work was written by a scholar with the pen name of Hao gezi(浩歌子) in the reign period of Qianlong in the Qing dynasty, and has drawn relatively little attention among the scholars thus far; it was not until 1980’s that scholars figured out that the author Hao gezi was Yin Qinglan, the sixth son of the renowned Qing scholar Yin Jishan. Yingchaung yicao had circulated as a manuscript for more than one hundred years until it was printed by Shenbao guan(申報館) in Shanghai in the reign period of Guangxu 2-3 (1876-1877). This edition is currently collected at The Kyujanggan(奎章閣) Institute of National Seoul University. At present, no known study of its introduction to and circulation in premodern Korea is available. However, given that the late Chosön period saw high interest in Chinese narratives, it is speculated that this work was imported to Korea soon after its first publication in China. Later, two publishing houses in Shanghai also published illustrated editions of the work. Given that the Shenbao guan version is the first printed edition of Yingchuang yicao, the copy collected at Kyujanggak Institute should be regarded highly for its academic values.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.