식민지 검열과 “식민지-제국” 표상 -『조선출판경찰월보』의 다섯 가지 통계표가 말해주는 것

Abstract

The Publication Police Monthly of Korea(朝鮮出版警察月報) was confidential documents about the censorship actions against publications in colonial Korea, and published by the Book Department(圖書課) of Police Bureau (警務局) under the Government-General of Korea. It is possible to assume that such classification categories manifest the political and cultural designs of the censorship apparatus of the colonial regime how to control publishers and audiences by regulating aspects of their publications. The end purpose of censorship lies in coercing mental compliance, but the object of violence applied is the physical products of mental labor, that is, the publications. Notably the Monthly records the administrative actions taken against publication as well as their publishers. Thus the publications were the immediate concern of the publication police (by extension imperial Japan), and the responsible publishers were next concern. The enterprise of publication can be divided into two processes of manufacturing (process A) and distributing (process B) to the reader. The colonial Publication Police (Shuppan keisatsu) interfered with these two processes, screening and controlling publications passing through them, and the recordings of such activities being the Monthly. In the Monthly, the five statistical tables of administrative actions are very important, because they are a quantitative representation of the Japanese censorship activities in Korea, and were indispensable at almost all issues of the Monthly during its life of about ten years. Five statistical tables shows Japanese empire's self-representation as "colony-empire" through problems of how 'identification' of the publications could be describe. For Japanese empire, the colony Chōsen had to be the external part included in the empire and also the inner part excluded from the empire.