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Changes of Descriptions about Resistance of the People Against the Ruling Classes in the Premodern Period in Modern and Contemporary Korean Linear History Books

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2018, 75(1), pp.47-82
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.75.1.201802.47
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 11, 2018
  • Accepted : February 1, 2018
  • Published : February 28, 2018

CHOI HYERIN 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article reviewed the descriptions concerning resistance by the oppressed people in the premodern period that appeared in important Korean linear history books published from the 1890s to the 1980s. To achieve this goal, this article reviewed Dongguksaryak (1906) by Hyun Che, Sinpyeon Joseonyeoksa (1923) by Hwang Uidon, Joseon saheo kyeongjesa (1933) by Beak Namwoon, Joseon bonggun saheo kyeongjesa (1937) by Beak Namwoon, Joseon yeoksa dokbon (1937) by Lee Chungwon, Joseonsa daekwan (1948) by Lee Byngdo, Joseonsa kyojeong (1948) by Jeon Sukdam, Kuksa deayo (1949) by Sohn Jintae, Kuksa sinron (1961) by Lee Kibaik, Hankuksa sinron (A New History of Korea, 1967, 1976) by Lee Kibaik, and Hankuk minjungsa (1986) by the Research Group for History of the Minjung. The colonial period is the most important in this article because the resistance by the oppressed people in the premodern period was highly rated in Korean linear history for the first time. In this period, liberalistic descriptions appeared in linear history books written by the school of Nationalist and Culturalist history, and socialistic descriptions appeared in linear history books written by the school of materialist history. These two styles of descriptions continued and fused after liberation and established themselves as two important explanations about resistance by the oppressed people in the premodern period. After the Korean War, as materialist history disappeared in South Korea, such socialistic descriptions also officially disappeared. But socialistic descriptions had some influence in South Korean history as South Korean historians tried to overcome limitations by borrowing some factors of materialist history in the course of the decolonization movement. Advanced socialistic descriptions about the resistance by the oppressed people reappeared in South Korean linear history books in the 1980s, with emphasis on the effort to overcome national division and the inflow of Maxism into the South Korean public sphere.

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