동아시아세계 속의 한국 족보

Abstract

Started in Song Dynasty, genealogy had come into wide spread use in East Asia areas, such as Korea, Vietnam, Ryukyu, and Japan. This study examines the characteristics of Korean genealogy compared to East Asian genealogy. In addition to a form of genealogy and its contents, this article pays more attention to explore a social structure that brought out the difference between genealogies, especially relating with a social hierarchy. The characteristics of Korean genealogy are as in the following mentions. First of all, Korean genealogy reflects a social structure of Korea that was laid between China as a non-caste system and Ryukyu and Japan as a rigid caste system. Moreover, in terms of a social hierarchy, Korean genealogy obviously has a characteristic as 明族譜 and quantitatively, a vast number of genealogy were complied as a social phenomenon as well. Finally, unlike Chinese genealogy, there is no 世表圖 within Korean genealogy. This demonstrates that a kinship in Korea was more stable than in China.