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This article was made public with the theme of <Classical Literature and university's liberal arts education: Focusing on development of classical literature's liberal arts courses> sponsored by the Korea Society of Classical Studies and was paid attention to the Chinese literature field among them. The history of liberal arts education of universities gets together with the acceptance of Modern Western learning systems and the classical literature also became to settle down as a liberal arts course of Korean literature. In this point, although it is regarded that Chinese literature would go through a similar process in a viewpoint of literature, the reality is not like that. First, Chinese literature with the history of two thousand years was disposed due to strengthening of a phase of its own language for establishment of a modern national state, but while the department of Chinese characters education was established at universities in the early half of 1970s with the interest of Chinese literature's heritage in the latter half of 1960s, the education of a Sino-Korean subject was carried out and could be also settled down as university's liberal arts. In addition, Chinese literature has characteristics keeping a phase of humanities called as “literature․history․philosophy” without stopping as literature that simply used Chinese characters as notation means. It means that characteristics of Chinese literature like this should together consider a semantic network called Chinese characters's cultural area of East Asia matured with the sentence of statecraft. In addition, the education of Chinese characters as university's liberal arts didn't properly get an opportunity capable of considering these characteristics and a semantic network while going through a process of colony, the Korean War, Juntas, democratization and neoliberalism. At this time, people have a new understanding that liberal arts capable of being defined as communication means for mutual understanding of human beings are Chinese literature as humanities of East Asia including “literature․history․philosophy” and need to devote ourselves to frank worries and efforts on classical literature as university's liberal arts in addition to Chinese literature from now on.

Chinese literature, Liberal Arts Courses, Education of Chinese Characters, Classical Literature, Humanities, Mutual Understanding of Human Beings