정기원鄭基元의 한국 장서 수집과 영문잡지 발간 활동

초록

This study sheds new light on the biographical history of Chung Kei Won, known as a student in the United States of the 1930s and a member of the National Assembly of Korea, by focusing on the period between the completion of his doctorate and his return to a liberated Korea, which has not been previously studied in detail. The primary sources examined in the study are the archives of the Gest Oriental Library where Chung worked for fi ve years after he received his Ph.D. from Princeton University:mainly the original texts from the letters of Dr. Nancy Lee Swann, who hired Chung as the curator of the Gest Oriental Library, and those from English publications by Chung Kei Won, such as Th e Free Korea and Korean Research Bulletin. Th rough the examination of archival materials produced during Chung’s stay in Princeton, this study was able to rectify the incorrect information about his biographical history; to corroborate his eff orts to develop the Korean collection and to build a Kim Korean library of over 100,000 volumes at Princeton University; to fi nd that he actively led Korean student organizations and that he endeavored to make known not only Japan’s unjust annexation of Korea but also the history and culture of Korea through publications and contributions to newspapers. As an additional result of the examination of the letters of Dr. Swann, previously known only as one of the fi rst and prominent female sinologists, this study discovered that she was Chung’s constant supporter in both the development of the Korean collection and Chung’s effort for the independence movement in the United States.

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