‘동아시아’란 무엇인가?― 근대 이후 한·중·일의 ‘아시아’想像의 차이와 그 결과

Abstract

As is mentioned in the works of many researchers, the concept of “East Asia” came into being with the progress of the Occident and it’s colonizing in the East. Whereas to understand the foundation of the identity within “East Asia” countries and the internal relations of their history, it is not enough to restrict in the narrative mode of Western universalism. This thesis focuses on the cultural mentality and the identity system that were brought up in the complicated historical context of the three main East Asia countries, China, Japan and Korea. All of these were conceived and constructed in the vision of “East Asia”, and the analysis would help to get further understanding into the intersected and regrouped political system, which constitute the inner meaning of the concept itself.