간도파출소의 간도 문제 인식과 간도 문제의 식민화

Abstract

This paper examines the discourse of Gando produced in the Korean Empire is appropriated by colonial discourse through the survey report produced by Gando police station. Gando police station conducted the field work and the documentary survey on Gando region before and after setting up the police station and submitted the survey report to Japanese Resident-General in Korea and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Japan. Seen from the survey report on Gando issues, the history of Gando issues was composed with as the central figure of the concept, ‘in-between empty zone’(‘間曠地帶’). The origin of Gando issues was the zone which was appeared by a treaty between Qing and Joseon in the early 17th century and was maintained for two hundred years. When Qing opened the zone in the late 19th century, the demarcation issue between Qing and Joseon was emerged. Those who worked for Gando police station thought that the border meeting held in 1885 and 1887 was closed undecided and Japan reopened the border meeting after the Russo-Japanese war. The perception on the zone which was connected from Naito Konan to Jisaku Sinoda was quite different from the perception on ‘Tumen boundary’ in the Korean Empire. They thought the zone was a neutral zone which was not ruled by Qing nor Joseon. As well as the concept that Gando was a neutral zone, go even further, ‘terra nullius’ was originated from the colonial discourse which jusified the imparial expantion by Europe and Japan. As Japanese Gando policy was changed in the late 1908, the range of Gando decreased. In the course of the negotiation of trial jurisdiction between Qing and Japan, the range of Gando was reduced to the jurisdiction by Gando police station and ‘Seokulsu(石乙水) boundary’ by Qing was fixed.　When Japanese government gave up the Gando ownership, Gando police station remained nominal and the range of Gando was changed into ’Korean mixed residence area’(‘韓人雜居區域’).