Nak Chung Thun papers
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Scope and Contents
This collection contains the literary archive of Korean-American writer Nak Chung Thun (1875-1953), including the handwritten manuscripts for novels, stories, and essays. The manuscripts are written in an archaic form of Korean hangul, and date from approximately the 1920s and 1930s. There are also some family papers including two yearbooks of Samson Thun from Dinuba Union High School (1924-1925) and the biographical writing of Ellen Thun.
Some of the short stories and essays were removed from two binders for preservation purposes. The binder covers are housed in Box 4.
Dates
- Creation: circa 1920s-1990s
Creator
- Chŏn, Nak-ch’ŏng, 1876-1953 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the East Asian Library at eal@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the East Asian Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Biographical / Historical
Nak Chung Thun (1875-1953) was born in Pyŏngan Province, Korea (now part of North Korea) and immigrated first to Hawaii and then to California in 1907. He settled in Riverside and worked as a laborer. Thun wrote dramas and fiction in Korean that remained unpublished during his lifetime. He was married Ruth (born 1889) and they had seven children including Samson Thun (1908-1998) and Ellen Thun (1912-2006).
Extent
2.25 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
Korean
English
Abstract
This collection contains the literary archive of Korean-American writer Nak Chung Thun (1875-1953), including the handwritten manuscripts for novels, stories, and essays. There are also some family papers including two yearbooks of Samson Thun from Dinuba Union High School (1924-1925) and the biographical writing of Ellen Thun.
Subject
- Title
- Finding aid for the Nak Chung Thun papers
- Status
- Minimally Processed
- Author
- Diann Benti
- Date
- 2022 October
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries East Asian Library Repository
Doheny Memorial Library
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-1825 United States