1910년대 한국 유교지식인의 중국 인식 - 柳麟錫, 朴殷植, 李炳憲을 중심으로 -

Abstract

The Great Han Empire fell in 1910, and The Qing Empire in 1912. The Korea and the China had the historical extinction of the monarchy in common nearly at the same time. Korean Confucian intellectuals as a ruined people had much interest in the Chinese political situation. Yoo Insuk, the representative figure in the Korean modern military struggle against the Japanese invasion, completed the work named woojoomoondab[宇宙問答, dialogue on the China, the Korea, and the world] in the Russian Far East. This work showed the strong aspiration for the revival of the Confucian Chinese Empire, for that was thought to be the absolute way to the Korean independence from the Japanese domination. Park Eunshik, the representative leader in the Korean modern enlightenment movement for the national independence, also had his book named Hankooktongsa[韓國痛史, the Korean modern history in pain] published in Shanghai. This work showed the solidarity of the Korea and the China, from which he interpreted the Korean past as the Korean-Chinese double history in the same painful memory. Yi Byunghun, the famous reformer for the transformation of the traditional Korean Confucianism, also published his travel book named joonghwayoogi[中華遊記, the travel book around the China] in Namtong. This work was the firstly published travel book on the Republic of China by Korean people, where was observed the duality of the modern China between the Confucian tradition and the Western modernity. These three works had different viewpoints on which one would be proper for the Chinese national system between the absolutism and the constitutionalism and the republicanism, but the same prospect that the Koran future would be made into appearance connected to the Chinese one, for they were all the works of the Korean Confucian intellectuals in long tradition of the Korean-Chinese relation.