동양 담론 그리고 주권-정부-인민 관계의 균열과 전복 ―‘政合邦’청원에 대한 찬반논쟁을 중심으로

Abstract

This Article purposes to examine on how the Orient discourse and national one, which was proliferated to the common people with analyzing on the nation image and discourse shown through the newspapers, had a relationship with the national image, and why the people was mobilized. It investigated the relationship between the Orient․national discourse and the national image and, furthermore, the people image shown through the media with paying attention to the newspaper 'media', including 『Gukmin Sinbo』’ ‘『Hwangseong Sinmun』’ ‘『Daehan Minbo』’ and ‘『Daehan Maeil Sinbo』’, from December 1909 to March 1910 when the 'Jeonghapbang' presentation event was under the social issue then. And it could confirm the following facts in the process. First, the Orient discourse and the national discourse could be united as the double structure according to the real recognition and the modern national image. The thought that the maintenance of sovereignty and nation would be possible through the transfer of the independent sovereignty within the imagination of the 'Orient empire', and the thought that the lost independent sovereignty could be restore withing the imagination of the 'Orient solidarity' - both the thoughts show the crack and gap with regard to setting the relationship between the modern sovereignty and the government. The Orient discourse was involved deeply into the crack recognition of the modern sovereignty concept in the former thought and in the latter the gap between the present and the future of the modern sovereignty was mobilized in explaining that it couldn't be filled with orient civilization. In addition, the national discourse was mobilized in categorizing the unit to compose a political organization and the lower unit of the orient civilization for the self-strengthening realization unit and the future independent sovereignty. Second, the divided recognition on modern sovereignty and the recognition to fill the gap between past and future went into action the foundation to maintain the continuance, not moving to the governmental concept to maintain the modern sovereignty with mediating between a sovereign and people under a monarchial system before 1905. The thought that the people's rights and happiness could be realized by the governmental development under the 'protected nation' system needed the people image to adapt themselves to the system with brave, patience, diligence and simpleness with maintaining social order. Third, denying the Orient discourse was linked with the full expansion of the national discourse in drawing the national image. The concept that the independent sovereignty was thought as national essence made possible the conception on the 'national' unit based on the historicity and blood relationship not to be mixed even when the national boundary disappeared. The independent nation image coming in future constructed the real 'protected nation', so the 'nation within mind' was linked with the 'nation' living in the present time. The nation image that the intended independent nation and the real nation was united made the possibility to overthrow the relationship between the government and the people, which has been drawn until now through the recognition expansion on the occurrence origin of government. And the organization of the national matrix was drawn in order to carve and realize the independent nation within the mind of people. The people pulled into the 'nation' through the organization had to be equipped with the virtues, such as freedom, independence and brave, discarding the safe living within the reality in order to become the 'people' of the independent nation in the future.