베트남의 동북아 역사인식-베트남 역사교과서를 통해 살펴봄

Abstract

This study examines the history textbooks for the highschool students of Vietnam in order to understand the way of descriptions and discourses on the histories of three countries of Northeast Asia from the viewpoints of Vietnam. The main body of this article consists of two chapters. One is the comparative volumes of the descriptions on the histories of the three countries. As expected, the volume of Chinese history is the biggest while that of Korea is the smallest. Interesting feature is that the history of Korea in the textbooks is far much smaller than expected. The history of Korea starts only from 1945 when the Second World War finished though Korea claims that she has long history of more than two thousand years. The other chapter discusses the expected images of the Vietnamese students on the three histories of the three countries. The author creates three terms‘ Janus-facedness’for the image of Chinese history, ‘dynamics’for that of Japanese history, and ‘unexpectedness’for Korean history respectively. The history textbooks of Vietnam deliberately emphasize both the contribution of Chinese history on the civilization of mankind and the aggressive tendency of China in history. The Japanese history that starts to be introduced mainly from the time of Meiji Restortion is fully filled with energetic changes of Japan. Korean history that abruptly appears from 1945 without any mention of historical background of this country shows division of Korean Peninsula and a quick economic development of South Korea in decades. In the conclusion part, author discusses the fact that the history textbooks of Vietnam deal the history of a foreign country in the context of a world history. In other words, the history of a country is mentioned not to understand the history of a country itself, but to understand how the history of a country had a role in the world history to make a textbook of ‘world history’, not the textbook of ‘histories of foreign countries.’Author additionally raises suggestions to solve the problem of the‘ unexpectedness’of Korean history in the textbooks of Vietnam. First is to invest to the future historians who like to be the specialists on the history of Korea. Second suggestion goes to the academic circle of history in Korea：the work to arrange the Korean history in the context of the world history