Yun Ch’i-ho’s Diary

Courtesy of the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)

The diary of a Korean international student who attended Vanderbilt University and Emory College in the late nineteenth century.

Creator: Yun Ch’i-ho

Date of Creation: 1883 to 1945

Place of origin: Entries written in a variety of locations, including Nashville, TN and Oxford, GA

Materials: Paper

Process by which it was made: Handwritten

Current location: Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)


Further Reading

Mark Caprio, “Loyal Patriot? Traitorous Collaborator? The Yun Ch’iho Diaries and the Question of National Loyalty,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 7, no. 3 (2006): n.p.  https://muse.jhu.edu/article/209552

Chris Suh, “What Yun Ch’i-ho Knew: U.S.-Japan Relations and Imperial Race Making in Korea and the American South, 1904–1919,” Journal of American History 104, no. 1 (June 2017): 68–96. https://academic.oup.com/jah/article/104/1/68/3860656

Andrew Urban, “Yun Ch’i-ho’s Alienation by Way of Inclusion: A Korean International Student and Christian Reform in the ‘New’ South, 1888–1893,” Journal of Asian American Studies 17, no. 3 (October 2014), 305–36. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/556380


Information contributed by Chris Suh.