조청 국경 문제에 대한 새로운 시각 : 이화자, 『한중국경사 연구』(혜안, 2011)에 대한 서평

Abstract

Although the borderline between Choson and Qing was the Yalu River-Mt.Paektu-the Tumen River, some scholars of Choson thought that the line was not the original and historical Sino-Korean frontier. Such idea had spreaded widely after the demarcation in 1712. A Study on the History of Sino-Korean Frontier―Professor Lee Hwa Ja(Li, hua zi)'s new book―is the important work about the demarcation in 1712, the construction of border fences nearby the demarcation stone and the riverhead of the Sungjanghe River, the origin of the thinking about the Bungyegang(it means the demarcation river), the change of thinking about the Sino-Korean border in Choson and Qing from the 1880s and the Gando(Jiandiao)Policy of the Korean Empire in the early 1900s. This book especially shows the new idea about the fence construction by Choson after the demarcation in 1712. The author asserts that the workers who had constructed the heaps of earth, piles of stones and wooden fences to make clear the Sino-Choson border line after the demarcation in 1712 had made wooden fence from the Hwanghwasongguja which flow in the Sungjanghe River to the Hongtosansu, the riverhead of the Tumen River. But the ruins of the plies of stones which had been found on 1880s just connected to the Hwanghwasongguja not to the Hongtosansu. Despite of the some misinterpretation of the historical materials and old maps, this book can be served as the starting point of studies about the Sino-Choson border negotiations in 1880s, the Gando Policy of the Korean Empire and the international relations of the early 1900s.