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The Reality and the Illusion of the Colonial View of History

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2014, (54), pp.5-24
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : June 26, 2014
  • Accepted : August 14, 2014

Park Jun Hyoung 1

1연세대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

While the colonial view of history separated Manchuria from Joseon in order to justify Japanese colonial rule and Japan’s advance into Manchuria, the nationalist view of history regarded the two territories as one and systematized the history of ancient Joseon with much focus on Go-Joseon(Old Joseon). Such an awareness of Manchuria was largely based on the discourses established in the late Joseon dynasty. The only difference is that, though the former view applied the histories of Manchuria and Joseon to the direction of reducing the history of Koreas, the latter incorporated the historyof the former nation in its own in order to resist Japanese colonialism and overcome the reality of the colonized Joseon. The academic circles of Korea between the 1960s and the 1980s succeeded in overcoming the time-honored colonial view of history and figured out the sovereign developmental process of the history of Korea. It was not until China carried out a national project called “Studies of History and Geography of Northeast Borderland and a Series of Phenomena,” a.k.a. “Northeast Asia Project” in 2002 that Japanese colonialists’ view of Manchuria-Joseon history became spotlighted again. China attempted to incorporate the history of Gojoseon, Goguryeo, and Balhae into that of ancient China with the current territory as the basis. Most recently, there have been diverse debates over the colonial view of history and the Japanese colonialists’ view of Manchuria-Joseon history with regard to how we can newly understand Northeast Asia by overcoming the logic of China’s Northeast Asia Project.

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