韓醫 書籍의 海外 流轉과 刊行의 意義

Abstract

This article explores the way Traditional Korean medical books circulated and affected abroad. This will contribute to extract the universality and specificity of traditional Korean medicine in order to map the landscape of East Asian medicine and identify the position of traditional Korean medicine in it. The ‘Northeast Project' - a version of historical war - launched by the Chinese government, expanded to ‘Chinese medicine project', which generated the urgent necessity of identifying and reinforcing the authenticity and legitimacy of traditional Korean medicine. Such an intellectual activity will provide effective logical and political weapons to tackle down the Chinese delusive claim that ‘Everything in traditional medicine comes from China'. This writing's aim is to discover and demonstrate visible evidences of the uniqueness of traditional Korean medicine through listing historical cases where traditional Korean medical books was published in China and influenced Chinese medicine. This will lead to reassuring the public, both abroad and at home, that regional medicines reciprocally interact and influence each other and Chinese medicine should be put forward as one type of regional medicine in Northeast Asia.