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A Study on the Request to Revise Errors of Errors in the Hwangmyungtonggi

  • Journal of Studies in Bibliography
  • Abbr : JSB
  • 2020, (83), pp.201~219
  • DOI : 10.17258/jib.2020..83.201
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Bibliography
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : August 20, 2020
  • Accepted : September 18, 2020
  • Published : September 28, 2020

Kim Dae Gyeong 1

1동북아역사재단

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ABSTRACT

Hwangmyungtonggi chronicles the history of the Ming Dynasty focusing on “Gyungseron” and was re-published several times. It is a historical text with a wide readership, such that posterity added new content and revised the text in varying degrees. But there existed errors on Joseon’s history in the revised book. In particular, its errors on King Injo’s Restoration was a serious problem, sufficient to blemish the legitimacy of the dynasty. Joseon took this matter seriously and asked China to revise the errors several times, and China eventually revised them during the reign of King Yeongjo. Hence, this paper seeks to study the process of revision and the outcomes of this process using textual bibliography and history of historiography. Through these, this study seeks to clarify that Joseon’s desperate effort for correction was not simply a revision of errors in the historical record, but the manifestation of a neo-confucianist historical awareness.

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