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On The Succession And Development of the government official’s list in Joseon dynasty -Focusing on the preface(序跋) and the statement(記文)

  • Journal of Korean Literature
  • 2017, (36), pp.119-156
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Published : November 30, 2017

Koo, Seul-Ah 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper is a new attempt to read the creation traditions and tendencies of the government official’s list(Ti ming-Ji, 題名記) in the political and social contexts of the time in the Joseon Dynasty. In contrast to the private association of the bureaucrats, Ti ming-Ji is the official record of former and present government officials. And it emphasizes collective identity as bureaucrats. In order to grasp the contextual context, I first surveyed the present state of creation of Ti ming-Ji during the entire period of Joseon and listed it in the order of the times. And that the genre source is in the Ti ming-Ji of the Song and Won(宋元) Dynasty. There are two main aspects of the change. First in Early Joseon, it is emphasized that the Joseon dynasty secured new talents based on academic achievement and personality in order to overcome the Emperor of the Goryeo period and to succeed the transplantation of the Joseon political order. This means that the adjustment is precise and accurate. It is also a pride that Joseon's politics has already established a rational system. In particular, senior bureaucrats encouraged lower-level officials to recognize the historical evaluation, and if they supported the king, they would be rewarded through promotion. This is characterized by a sense of systematic order that drives the self-control and growth of new officials. After the middle of the Joseon, it is emphasized that damaged records should be restored and rebuilt through the war. It also shows a tendency to record the repair process in detail. And as the central government's maintenance has been completed, the literary subject is changed by local government. In this process, it emphasizes the political commitment that the leaders should play a role in fully communicating the edification of wages in the provinces in relation to the central government. The creation of Ti ming-Ji until the Joseon dynasty was made mainly by the awareness of the necessity of individuals who worked at the relevant government offices. On the other hand, since the mid-Joseon Dynasty, the making of the Ti ming-Ji in the province tends to be made in earnest in order to improve the accuracy of the information and to secure the standard of the local government through revising the practice of the old one. Lastly, in the late-Joseon, there is a tendency to inherit the creation traditions of early Chosun and the Middle Age. And both the object of creation and the object of reception were expanded from gentry to the middle class. Ti ming-Ji emphasizes the identity of ‘politician’, especially based on hierarchical order. In addition, it reveals that the political order must be fully operated by each individual position at a given location. Therefore, the production of the Ti ming-Ji is a characteristic genre that was inevitably prevalent in the process of establishing a new political order by Joseon Dynasty.

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