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Describe Dockdo in The Gaihōzu Map - Analysis on Branner Earth Science Library collection of Stanford University -

Sangmyeoung Moon 1

1서울대학교 규장각한국학연구원

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The Gaihōzu maps deposited in universities have recently aroused the attention of researchers in Japan and the United States. These maps are gradually being recognized as sources of modern history (Anderson 2001). The researchers and librarians who participated in the symposium entitled “Japanese Imperial Maps as Sources for East Asian History,” held at the beginning of October 2011 at Stanford University, showed much interest in learning about these cartographic documents. Branner Earth Science Library of Stanford University has 82sets of 8,000 collection of Gaihōzu Maps. Among these maps, Ulleungdo and Dokdo maps were produced in the year 1903, 1927, 1938, and 1944. Through the maps that were produced in 1903, before Japan deprived Korea’s diplomatic rights and national sovereignty, they illegaly gathered information about Korea and produced Korean maps. The maps can be categorized by two types: USA military confiscated the maps produed by Japanese army and maps that USA army reprinted at Tokyo. Gaihōzu maps were topographic maps based on espionage and surveying in secret. Additionally, it has no political awareness. Gaihōzu maps had never changed what Dokdo looked like. The change of USA and Japan’s political benefit and behavior after the Second World War, Dokdo’s affiliation and Dokdo’s whereabouts, thus the current situation, changed. Research on the Gaihōzu maps is in basic steps. We need to understand Gaihōzu Map’ whole scale in USA and the contents of it. Including Ulleungdo and Dokdo maps, we should investigate the maps of Korean Peninsula and secure the Gaihōzu Map’s image.

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