兪晩柱의 「錢牧齋年譜」 연구

Abstract

It is very controversial thing to answer the question who Qian Qianyi(錢謙益) was. Because he made a living in somewhat contradictory and dubious way Qian Qianyi had been underestimated and scorned for a long time despite his brilliant achievements as a author. Unlike other critics, Yu Manju兪晩柱 considered Qian Qianyi as a most crucial author in literature so that tried to describe his life as objectively and indiscriminately as possible. While Yu Manju wrote "The chronological list of the Qian Qianyi's life"錢牧齋年譜 he focused on the Qian Qianyi's competence as a poet and a historian. It is the central axis of "The chronological list of the Qian Qianyi's life" how that competence had been kept and developed through his life. Meanwhile Yu Manju made an effort to describe the Qian Qianyi's private life as well as his public life thoroughly. From that we can infer Yu Manju had a prominent talent as a biographer. Plus it must be said Yu Manju pointed out the fact in "The chronological list of the Qian Qianyi's life" that in some sense Qian Qianyi was nothing but one of the Chinese who held a sense of ethnocentrism or Sinocentrism being indifferent to the public interest of Joseon(朝鮮). From the way how he handle the subject we can infer that when it comes to writing about someone Yu Manju thought highly of objective and rational attitude.