연행 기록을 통해본 18~19세기 북경 유리창 서점가

Abstract

This paper’s purpose is to search the state of bookstores street in Beijing Liulichang琉璃廠 through reports of Ching travel from 18C to 19C. The street of Liulichang was a old bookstores street located between JZhengyang gate正陽門 and Xuanwu gate宣武門 southern outside of Beijing Castle. In a number of travelogues written by Chosun envoys, were very valuable information on behind bookstores in Liulichang, which was a culture street in 18C, such as operation methods of the bookstores, collecting books, dealing methods, hometown of bookstore’s owner and so on. The group of Chosun Envoys visited to Beijing three or four times per year. Whenever they came, they purchased various books at Liulichang street. In these meanings, Liulichang was the front line of knowledge exchanges between Chosun and Ching importing Ching culture in those time. Liulichang-shuseji琉璃廠書舍記 written by Liwenzao李文藻 at 1769 showed whole structures of Liulichang very well. It obviously arranges location of Liulichang bookstores, hometown of bookstores’ owner, dealing items and so on. This paper makes a map of bookstores in Liulichang street and organizes information and features of bookstores based on these reports. Then, researching reports of Chosun’s Envoy, this paper generally organizes facts such as explanations on whole Liulichang street, description of bookstores inside, reports related with each bookstore, selling methods of books, scale of books purchasing and so on. The latest scholarship information of Ching was consistently run to Chosun through bookstores street in Liulichang over one hundred years. This changed scholarship of Chosun and its view of the world. With this writing characters and meanings of Liulichang as an advance base of Chosun-Ching cultural exchanges would be more revealed.