유만주(兪晩柱)의 전겸익(錢謙益) 수용 - 조선후기 지식인이 명청 교체기 문학을 읽는다는 것 -

Abstract

Yu Manju兪晩柱, when he was 23 years old, had read through most of writings ofQian Qianyi錢謙益 in a mere two months. He held Qian’s works in esteem andsympathized with him. But since Qian’s name was branded with infamy for hisdisloyalty to the Ming dynasty and his works were censored by the Qing court, Joseon朝鮮 intellectuals generally despised him for his equivocal behavior and double identity. And Qian’s some disparaging remarks about Chinese writing style of Joseon in “Anafterword to Huánghuájí跋皇華集” caused some kind of nationalism and publicindignation among Joseon intellectuals. So Qian’s works had been understudied andmisinterpreted in Joseon. Instead of being obsessed with some unfriendly comment of aforeign writer, Yu Manju focused on Qian’s voluminous work itself and explored thecomplexities of life and mind of him. As a result, he could understand accurately Qian,the eminent writer of the Ming-Qing明淸 dynastic transition, reputing him as both aliterary critic and historiographer. Yu’s way of capacitive reading Qian as a foreignwriter of modern times is still valid and meaningful.