고려대학교

초록/요약

Chiangyee had wandered all around the world, starting from England in 1933 and written many travel essay. Since 1930’s, he had presented his travel note titled ‘The Silent Traveller.’ England and US were his stomping grounds and it’s noteworthy that he started his literary career for the first time and bring the end in these two countries. From this perspective, this study aims to understand his literary world in other countries, especially targeting the England and US, and to discover his journey in the West and how his cosmopolitanism was embedded in his Diaspora literary works. He might have found his national identity and loved his homeland in the China Town located in the England and US. But the labyrinth of isolation, exclusion, and nostalgia always lingered on his heart. As he had to live separately in the England and US, it drove changes in his writing style and identity. The England was considered as ‘his second home’ but ‘somewhere he’s aware of limitation as an alien in the unfamiliar western world. However, the States can be interpreted as a place where guarantees writer’s freedom and provides opportunity to be a cosmopolitan. Chiangyee evaluated modern civilization of the US/the West on negative side, working on his writings but took balanced approach to harmonize the East and West. In fact, his writings had received attention from many readers in the West, rather than the East. But only few study was carried out enough for his accomplishment to pursue harmony of the East and West in the East Asia. Chiangyee, a Chinese writer in the States must be considered as an world-renowned writer to be focused not only by the literary world in the West, but also in S. Korea as well in the Diaspora, the supranational era. In this context, this study is expected to provide extensive, critical interpretation on Chiangyee in future.