eLibrary: The Sinan Shipwreck

The Sinan Shipwreck, discovered off Korea’s southwestern coast in 1975, was a 14th-century Chinese trade vessel bound for Goryeo and Japan. Its remarkably preserved cargo offers a unique insight into maritime commerce across East Asia during the Yuan dynasty.

This is the latest version of an electronic library of resources supporting the exhibition. It offers free and immediate access to online resources for anyone wanting to explore further the context of the museum’s artifacts.  As the museum develops, more resources, in more languages, will be added.

NOTE: Some of these links come from Academia.edu and Researchgate.net. These require a free one-time registration. To research further yourselves, you may consider registering with Jstore.org which gives limited but free monthly access to its collections

Articles

The Story of an Ancient Person in a Dish Raised from the Sea Water

Baoping, L., 2012. Inscribed Chinese Stoneware Storage Jars from the 14 th Century Sinan Wreck in Korea: the Context of Asian Ceramic Trade and Japanese Tea Culture. National Museum of Korea, pp.87-104.

Brown, R.M., 2004. History of shipwreck excavation in Southeast Asia. The Belitung wreck: sunken treasures from Tang China, pp.40-55.

Fan, J. and Li, H., 2021. On-demand maritime trade: a case study on the loading of cargo and the packaged goods of the Sinan shipwreck. Journal of Maritime Archaeology, 16, pp.163-186.

Fan, J. and Li, H., 2020. A study on the departure port of the Sinan shipwreck—A perspective based on the Chinese ceramic cargo. Archaeological Research in Asia, 23, p.100195.

Griffiths, R.T., 2023. Your Shipwreck is my Time Capsule, The Diplomat Magazine, May

Keith, D.H. 1980. A Fourteenth Century Shipwreck at Sinan-gun, Archaeology, 33, 2, 33-43

Kim Youngmi, Discoveries from the Sinan Shipwreck NMK

Ogawa, M., The Iron Grapnel Supposed to Belong to the Sinan Shipwreck and Other Anchors in East Asia,

Ok, L.M. 2016. Discoveries from the Sinan Shipwreck, The Silk Road, 14, 223-225

Taehee, L., 2011. Sinan shipwreck collection at the National Museum of Korea. Journal of Korea Art and Archaeology, 5, pp.105-116.

Videos

Children’s cartoon on Sinan Wreck (in Korean)) (Kakao Gallery) 13.26 mins