This study focuses on the Department of Chinese Literature Department in Keijo Imperial University in colonial Chosǒ̌n in the 1930s to 1940s. Dealing with Takeshi Karashima, a professor at the departments, Choi Chang-kyu(1st graduating class), Kim tae-jun(3rd), Bae-ho(9th), and Lee Myong-sun(12th), this study aims to explore what context the academic discourse of the Chinese literature produced in colonial Chosǒ̌n. Karashima was a colonial official who was deeply involved in the cultural policy in Chosǒ̌n and one who introduced modern Chinese literature to the Chinese Literature Department in Keijo Imperial University. Korean graduates from the department who made there career in journalism and academia include Kim Tae-jun, who served as chief of the Cultural Department of the Workers Party of South Korea, and Bae Ho and Lee Myong-sun, who defected to North Korea-those whose existence has been forgotten (at least in the study of the Chinese Literature) in South Korea since the 1950s. Their personal careers represent to some degree the complex political tension which arose in the culture of colonial Chosǒ̌n. Conversely, the experience of doing Chinese Literature in a colonial imperial university can be said to have shaped their learning, practice, and political action. The re-reading of those who passed through Chinese literature in this period can be part of the work to understand the movement of academic discourse in the imperial university in East Asia.