‘종이’ 살롱으로서의 林徽因의 서신 고찰 — 윌마 페어뱅크와의 서신을 중심으로

Abstract

Lin Huiyin, a famous Chinese contemporary female writer, and Wilma Canon Fairbank, an American scholar, are two women representing the East and the West, who communicated and interacted freely through letters even in the chaotic era of war, although their appearance and nationality are different. The letters they exchanged included important cultural reasons for Lin Huiyin and played an important role as a link in the exchange of East and West literature. This study examined the feminist consciousness expressed in the process of conflict with tradition through an intangible “paper” salon called a letter through the consideration of Lin Huiyin’s English letter. It is expected that it will be an opportunity to prove through letters the literary historical value of feminist discourse, which has been discussed only in Lin Huiyin’s poems and novels, and an important role in East-West literary exchange related to architecture and culture.