한국 역사학의 재구성을 위한 방법으로서 동아시아사

Abstract

The faculty division of National history, Asian history, and Western history, which is common in the history departments of Korean universities, is based upon the dual centrism of Europe and the modern. In contrast, secondary history education has been ruptured because the 2007 national standards for history created a new subject, East Asian history. Currently, secondary history education has been reorganized into national history and world history. Whereas the categorization of National, Asian, and Western historiesfollows regional divisions, the categorization of Korean, East Asian, and Western history pursues a concentric extension, not an enumeration. On the one hand, East Asian history overlaps with Korean history. On the other hand, it is a part of World history. First,the location and identity of East Asian history is in question. East Asian history is located in an interactive zone of the internal and the external,as well as of the global and the local. This interactive East Asian history can open up glocal history which reflects on history globally and makes history locally. Ironically, the threefold system of history departments in Korea is based upon an internalization of three different centrisms: the nationalism of Korean history, the Sinocentrism of Eastern history, and the Eurocentrism of Western history. East Asian history pursuing glocal history can play the role of a compass for Korea in the twenty-first century by opening up a historical view for overcoming this threefold centrism. Departing from the idea that East Asian history could work like a diastrophism shaking up the faculty system of National, Eastern,and Western history in Korea, this paper addresses suggestions about East Asian history as a methodology for reconstructing history in Korea.