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Between Text and History: Elaboration of Some Odd Phenomena in Records about Chinese ‘Xueshi(學士)’ Emigrating to Korea in Korean Collected Works

劉永連 1 EUNSANG CHO 2

1中國曁南大學
2배재대학교

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ABSTRACT

In some data such as genealogy, inscription and biography in Korean Collected Works, there are texts everywhere, telling us that someone’s first ancestor who is Chinese ‘Xueshi(學士)’ emigrated to Korea. But After investigating, we can find that those stories are different very much from history. There are four problems outstanding: First, texts about those stories are in utter disorder; Second, lot of facts is mistake and illogical; Third, their first ancestors’ status are much exaggerated; Forth, passing oneself off as historical figures. Obviously, we can not regard those stories as true histories. However, it is improper for us to discard it arbitrarily, because they are good historical data which reflected one kind of practice prevailing in Korean tribes or clansmen to structure authentic images of Chinese Culture, in the background that tremendous changes came in international relations in East Asia from 17th century.

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