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Changes in the recognition of Manchuria in French geography : ‘Manchuria’ in the papers published in “Annales de géographie”

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2017, (24), pp.9~49
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..24.201712.9
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : November 18, 2017
  • Accepted : December 17, 2017

Dongkun YIM 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper examines how the recognition of Manchuria has changed in French geography through the texts about Manchuria, published in the journal of ‘Anale de Géographie’ in the beginning of French Geography. The formation of the French geographical school in the late 19th century, called 'Vidalian', became a discipline that produced knowledges centered on the region. In the confused situation of colonial expansion and war between nations, Mapping, and regional analysis were took a important roles to the geographical studies. In this paper, however, the methodology of the French geography was not applied to Manchuria until the early 20th century, and the geographical knowledge production of the geography journal was influenced by the experience of some prominent scholars who knew the area well. Geographers, on the other hand, were at the stage of accumulating knowledge to collect, classify, and evaluate events from diverse media, and French geographers could not independently perform maps, geological surveys, and vegetation surveys such as those claimed in Europe. In addition, the need to do this in academic field has gradually declined due to the expansion of the spatial range of mapping of new emerging national institutions (water resources, forests, and underground resources) and military forces. Knowledge of French geography in ‘Manchuria’ It was also conducted at the analytical level or at the local political and economic level in the 1920s and 30s. We now see, from the 1930s, it included ‘the population’ as the revisited object of geographical discourse of ‘Manchuria’.

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