鄭喬의 중국사 이해와 현실 인식

Abstract

Jeong Gyo argued that Chen Shou considered Shu to be the authentic successor, via analyzing the content of his San Guo Zhi, a text that was known to be edited from the aspect that Wei is the authentic one. Although it is true that there are sufficient difficulties to understand Chen Shou as the one who had the theory of Shu the authentic successor straightly as Jeong Gyo had argued, his argument may be significant in that he sought to connoted meanings rather than general forms and in that his basis presented re-thinking of intentions of historians shown in books of history. Also, in the developing process of his argument, Jeong Gyo confessed his own position that Shu was the authentic successor. His authentic theory may be affected by Zi Zhi Tong Jian Gang Mu by Zhu Xi mostly, and Zhu’s historical view affected Jeong Gyo’s writing of Nam Myeong Gang Mok. Nam Myeong Gang Mok is a book of history in which the history of South Ming government was written with Gang Mok style. Since the 18th century, books of history dealing with history of South Ming on the basis of authentic theory had been published resulting from the notion on Sinocentrism succession, and Nam Myeong Gang Mok was one of the products of the notion. Jeong Gyo wrote the history of South Ming, claiming that Chosun, not Ching, authentically succeeded to Ming Dynasty. In the appeal for accession to the throne of the Korean King when Korea’s sovereignty was threatened by Tragedy in UI-mi year and Go-jong’s refuge to Russian Mission in 1896, Jeong’s perception of history was expressed as concrete perception of reality. The thought that Chinese and Barbarians were divided not by tribes or regions but by culture was the outcome of the notion on Sinocentrism succession, the accession to the throne was a ritual that Korea is the center of Sinocentrism. Jeong’s appeal for accession to the throne of the Korean King was a concrete expression of “New Confucianism” and “Eastern morality and Western technology” requiring acceptance of Western reality based on Eastern values among intellectuals who sought to Western values and other intellectuals who sought to Eastern values.