1931년 식민지 조선 반중국인 폭동의 학살 현장 검토

Abstract

In this article, I reviewed the factors of riots and massacres by focusing intensively on the sites of Incheon, Pyongyang, Sinuiju, Wonsan and their neighboring areas, where the massacres occurred during the 1931 anti-Chinese riots. In Incheon and Pyongyang, massacres took place in the city. In Sinuiju and Wonsan areas, massacres took place in a workplace away from the city. Even though it was a city, there was a lot of slaughter on the outskirts of the city. The Chinese victims were mostly low-income workers in agriculture, mining, agriculture, and commerce. Some of them were food workers who were in demand as Chinese workers increased. Many of the Korean defendants who were related to the massacres belonged to the occupation group in the lower part of the city. The proportion was higher than that of those who were convicted of the riots. Many of them were those who gathered in the surrounding counties and other cities in search of jobs. The scene of the massacre tells us that the conflict between Chosun workers and Chinese workers gathered around the city at home and abroad to find a job is the background of riots and massacres. Not all labor market conflicts turn into riots and massacres. The difference between the riots in July 1931 and the conflicts before and after them was the justification of violence. In the July 1931 riots, the lower-class Korean workers were violent in the cause of revenge for the persecuted Koreans in China. These violent causes were widely accepted by the general public beyond the working class. Numerous crowds participating in the riots symbolized such approval and legitimacy. One of the reasons for the massacres in Pyongyang was the lack of a Chinese consulate and Chinese street. Justification and rumors are encouraged people to engage in riots and massacres. On the contrary, the power of the Chosun Governor-General's police and the counteraction of the Chinese were the factors restraining the riots and massacres. There were many things in the counteraction of the Chinese, from escape to defense. The center of their counteraction was the Chinese consulate and Chinese street in the area. In Pyongyang, however, there were no Chinese consulate and Chinese street, even though the population of China was second only to Sinuiju and Kyongsong.