18-19세기 한중 교류척독집의 수집 및 데이터베이스 구축 방안

Abstract

The Korean intellectuals of the Joseon Dynasty did not recognize the Qing Dynasty as the legitimate Middle Kingdom, although the Sino-Korean tribute relation was formed after the Manchu war of 1636. They had left few logs of their travel to Beijing and they had been reluctant to exchange conversation or Chinese poems by writing with the Chinese intellectuals when in Beijing, until Hong Daeyong and Kim Jaehaeng visited Beijing in 1765 and Park Jiwon in 1780. The intellectuals in Joseon began exchanging written conversations and letters with the Chinese intellectuals and this initiated the school of Northern studies, or Bukhakpa, that studied advanced culture of the Qing dynasty. The Travel log of Special Envoys to Beijing, or Yeonhaengrok, has been mostly used for study on the Sino-Korea cultural exchanges, however, it is a log for one-time event in terms of time and space, and it is a document that was written solely by the Korean envoy after he came back to Korea. On the other hand, given that letters are the archive of multiple exchanges between two people that are not constrained to time and space, the letter exchanges are an important data for the study of the mutual recognition of the intellectuals of the two countries. Every time a collection of letter is found, a paper on the introduction of the book has been written, so far. However, we have found that it would be more effective to establish a database that all content of the letter collections that were found, as we had already collected 37 books of the letter exchange collections. This method has two steps--the first step is digitalization of data, creating image data of the books by taking photographs, making input of original text in Chinese letters, and translating it into Korean so that it would be read by machine; the second step is establishment of Larchiveum, a comprehensive service facility that integrates the functions of library, archive, and museum. In the second step, all data created in the first step are divided by the unit of the information entities that have each meaning and the units are systematically connected so that the content of the data would be highly structuralized. The concept of Larchiveum introduced in this paper is a new approach to study not only the collection of letter exchanges between Korea and China, but also the log of special envoys between Korea and Japan.