중국 내셔널리즘과 ‘동북(東北)’ 표상: 영화 <양징위(楊靖宇)>와 <장진호(長津湖)>를 중심으로

Abstract

This article examines the representation of ‘Northeast’ in the recent Chinese mainstream movies as a sacred place of China’s glorious victory over enemies during modern era, mostly focusing on two key notions of ‘Anti-Japaneseness’ and ‘Anti-Americanism.’ This concept provides meaningful insight on recent the expansion of Chinese nationalism and changes in China foreign relations. To explore above in details, this article analyses ‘Anti-Japanese’ narrative film Yang Jingyu and ‘Anti-American’ narrative film Lake Jang Jin as an examples. Yang Jingyu, a story of historical Anti-Japanese resistance member Yang Jingyu, shows the importance of ‘Northeast’ in the light of ‘14 years anti-Japanese history’ in China, while Lake Jang Jin demonstrates a political importance of ‘Northeast’ for China during Korean War, ‘the war to resist U.S and aid Korea’ and examines an intention of Chinese government to build up nationalism using ‘resist U.S’ message. Based on examples of these two films, this article provides an opportunity to reconsider the political and historical meaning of ‘Northeast’ in Chinese modern history.