한국전쟁기의 이태준 - 『위대한 새중국』을 중심으로 -

Abstract

Lee Tae-Jun published the book titled ‘A Great China’ in 1952. This book is based on the visiting of China in 1951. In this book, he emphasized the importance of democratic Asia. After 1840, China experienced the threat of colonialism by West and Japan. After the revolution of 1949, China has the freedom of self-determination and builds the nation-state. But China does not take the nationalism. Instead of nationalism, she emphasizes the internationalism of democracy. When he visited the China, he noticed the meaning of this new intellectual atmosphere. Before emancipation from Japanese rule, he had the paradigm of binary opposition between spiritual East and material West. He thought that spiritual East is superior to material West. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1937, he reconsidered that paradigm because the Japan which invaded the China is part of spiritual East. He no more take that point of view, but he can not solve that problem. After visiting and seeing the intellectual development of China, he overcomes the binary opposition of spiritual East and material West and finds the Asia in global world instead of East. He recognizes the position of China in democratic Asia and world. He no more consider China as the center of East. It is the most important aspect of this book.