홍와 이두훈의 『동화세기』 편찬과 역사인식

Abstract

This study explored how Hong-wa Lee Du-hun, a local Confucian scholar from Goryeong, Gyeongbuk province in the early modern period, compiled Donghwasegi, and how historical perception reflected in the compilation of the book. In particular, Donghwasegi, the main analysis target of this study, has not been released at all, and this is the first study in academia that examines Donghwasegi. Like Lee Sang-ryong and Yu In-shik, Lee Du-hun made Confucianism a starting point for his studies, and he was also a person who later went through the Patriotic enlightenment movement in the early-modern times. It can be said that the analysis of Lee Du-hun is a representative example of during the transition from the early-modern period to the modern period, how the knowledge of the history of Confucian intellectuals there was, and how they perceived the history. Donghwasegi was written in Classical Chinese, but it extensively used the data including textbooks compiled in the same period. In terms of the editing method, it adopts a method of describing related events in the order in which they occurred each year, which was mainly described by the premodern period history books, but in terms of content, it accepts various contents of modern history books. Donghwasegi is a book that organizes the history of our country with Confucian history perception based on the traditional studies by a Confucian intellectual. At the time of the country’s fall, the succession relations that continued from Dangun era to Joseon era were summarized, and the independence of the Joseon’s nation and the people was described. However, there are also limitations that it views the history according to the rise and fall of the dynasty which is the characteristic of the history studies of the Middle Ages, and that it maintains the viewpoint of viewing history centered on the nation with the succession rights of the legitimate line of descent. Lee Du-hun's Donghwasegi shows the whereabouts of Confucian history studies, which were in the process of transitioning from premodern history to modern history. And in the process of the country’s fall, it shows the desire to show the authenticity of the Joseon state, and at the same time describes the limitations of Confucian history studies, which were yet to successfully enter the modern history studies.