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Conflict in the Process of Late Chosun Dynasty Anthology Publication Found in Antique Documents - Focus on the Eunbong Collection of Ahn Bang Joon -

Jo Jung gon 1

1한국학중앙연구원 한국학대학원 고문헌관리학과

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ABSTRACT

This study is an example of conflict occurred during the publication of family anthology at one of families in late Chosun dynasty. The object family of this study was the descendent line of Ahn Bang Joon who was the Ahns of Jooksan residing in the Bosung, Jeollanam-do and the object material of the study was concentrated on the ancient documents that owned by the main family including Eunbong Collection of Ahn Bang Joon. First, after looking at the life history of Ahn Bang Joon briefly, the process of publishing the Eunbong Collection has been explained which is an anthology as well as his writing and publishing activity. Ahn Bang Joon did various writing activities including the works related to the Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592 known as Imjin war and 2 times of Manchu war as well as the party strifes based on his academic background such as ethics and royalty. His works was published by Ahn Chang Hyun who is his descendent in 1773 as the name of Woosan collection and the Eunbong Collection was published in 1836 by Ahn Soo Rok with collecting all works together that were not listed in Woosan collection. Later, based on this, the Eunbong Collection was published in 1864 by Ahn Young Hwan who is the 9th generation of Ahn Bang Joon with active assists from Yoo Gun Hwan who was a governor of Bosung county at that time. Second, two conflicts were described which happened in 1864 and 1867 during publication of Eunbong Collection. Second, two conflicts were described which happened in 1864 and 1867 during publication of Eunbong Collection. Second, two conflicts were described which happened in 1864 and 1867 during publication of Eunbong Collection. The conflict happened in 1867 was touched off by a person from one of branches of Woobong party who stole the main edition and ran away because he was afraid of disclosing that he pretended to be a main family due to the preface that mentioned about the name of main family’s person. Because of this, the publication center were divided into two places, Daegye lecturing hall and Woobongconsa, and the anthology was published without integration and there were difficulties to distribute it. The anthology publication center requested several times to government authority to distribute the integrated edition and eventually the appeal was accepted and the integrated could be distributed to all over the country. Through this conflict, it was understood that there were conflicts occurred with respect to the person and the position of the head family with anthology as a medium.

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