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A Study on Peace Discourse in China at the Turn of the 20th Century— Focused on “World Peace Conference”

CHA TAEGEUN 1

1인하대학교

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ABSTRACT

At the end of the nineteenth century, the world peace movement was developed around the world under the crisis of the devastating war. The World Peace Conference, including the First and Second Hague Peace Conference in 1899 and 1907. attracted political and ideological attention around world. The information and knowledge about the Peace Conference in China was mainly through the Wan Kwoh Kung Pao published by Western missionaries and Japanese scholars of international law. It’s two sources of knowledge were introduced and evaluated from different perspectives on the World Peace Conference. In the conflict of ideal of world peace and partition of state, Chinese intellectuals began to think deeply about peace conference and peace issue. Kang You-wei regarded peace as a universal human ideal and appreciated the change of the world as a process of development toward the Great unification of world and set a high value on the World Peace Conference. On the contrary, Zhang Zhi-dong and Zhang tai-yan regarded world peace movement as Westerncentrism based on the unequal sovereignty of world peoples in the world peace conference and international law, and the peace of China could only be secured through strenuous efforts. Thus, at the end of the nineteenth century, the universalist ideology and nationalism which prioritized the sovereignty of the nation and the state was in confrontation with each other over the world peace issues. In this process, They could not addressed deeply the issue of peace and equality of human society based on equality of sovereignty and fair process and method.

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