칭다오 일본인사회의 접촉과 갈등에 관한 통시적 연구

Abstract

This paper presents an investigation into the contacts and conflicts of seaport cities located at the nodes of transnational relations in Northeast Asia with the case of Japanese community in Qingdao, China. There were two research periods: one lasted from the German rule to 1945 when the second Japanese occupation ended, and the other started in 1990 when the migration of Japanese people resumed due to the entry of labor-intensive manufacturing. As for methodology, the study analyzed historical materials, literary works, and previous studies and utilized interview data when necessary. The research content and findings were as follows: first, the study examined the patterns of contacts by the periods and found that contacts with others varied according to the patterns of political relations, industrial structures, population organization, and residence. Especially various contact surfaces were created in occupation and living spaces due to the increasing population and differentiation of hierarchy from the late 1910s to the 1930. Secondly, the study also examined the causes of conflicts and the patterns of their expression. Conflicts were usually created in colonial and anticolonial situations, namely discriminations against peoples by the Japanese Empire through political and military protection and resulting unequal economic relations. They were expressed in national relations such as anti-Japanese feelings and social class relations such as labor disputes. Finally, the Japanese community had failed to build a contact space to offset the national conflicts inherited as a public memory by minimizing contacts with others since 1990. As recent political clashes between China and Japan were penetrating into the daily lives of immigrants, those conflicts were specified as a private experience from a public memory.