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Constructing the Seogando Independence Movement Base and Andong’s Innovation Yurim in the Early 1910s

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2022, (33), pp.47~87
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..33.202204.47
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : March 19, 2022
  • Accepted : April 12, 2022
  • Published : April 30, 2022

LEE, KYE-HYUNG 1

1국민대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper investigated Andong’s Innovation Yurim and its role in constructing SeoGando (⻄間島) at Sinminhoe (新⺠會) as the base for an independence movement. SeoGando’s construction depended on the work of Lee Hoe-young, Yang Gi-Tak, and Andong’s Innovation Yurim affiliates such as Lee Sang-ryong and Kim Daerak. In 1911, these pioneers sacrificed their personal incomes to travel for 40 days heading toward Yuha-hyeon, traversing from Andong to Hwanin-hyeon, to establish the first base for independence. They faced several travails along the way, including months without proper housing. Several accounts take note of their ‘Shaving Hair’(薙髮) and ‘Changing Clothes’(易服). However, their efforts were not in vain. In June 1911, they were favorably received by the Chinese, allowed to borrow land, and eventually organized a Gyeonghaksa Temple where they established the Sinheung Academy. This academy would subsequently become a training center for military officers, a position gained through the backing of future-Provisional President of China Yuan Shikai. He rewarded Lee Sang-ryong with land and settlement in Tonghua County Habniha for having assisted the Revolutionary Army during the 1912 Wuchang Uprising. Eventually, however, financial and natural disasters forced the founders to abolish the Gyeonghaksa while maintaining the Shinheung School. While the founders either left or died after the reorganization, Lee Sang-ryong went on to write a historical account in his Daedong History in 1916 before forming the local government’s Bumindan.

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