明末 日用類書 및 《三才圖會》에 재현된 ‘고려국’, 그리고 中華觀

Abstract

This article studied the characteristics and meanings of maps, portraits, and texts related to the Korean Peninsula in Encyclopedias for Daily Use(日用類書) and Sancaituhui(《三才圖會》) in the late Ming Dynasty by making them the main subject of the study. A lot of different versions of content related to alien land(異域) that images are combined with texts were published and distributed in the late Ming Dynasty because of a growing interest in it from the viewpoint of natural history and in the cultural context of prosperous publication culture. These materials made a great contribution to the spread of related knowledge by simplifying and distributing information related to alien land including ‘Korea(高麗)’ to be the short texts with eidetic imagery. However, the deep-rooted Chinese ideas of the World(天下觀念) and Hua Yi(華夷觀) were strongly reflected in such knowledge. These ideas show the multi-layeredly structuralized aspect through the contexts including the images and texts themselves, the paratexts around them, intertextuality, the system of classification, etc. Readers naturally internalized the sinocentric view of the world and at the same time, skewed perceptions of alien land might have been stamped on them while enjoying the alien land information that were arbitrarily processed in text space with blurred boundaries between reality and imagination playfully. In conclusion, the contents related to the Korean Peninsula and alien land in Encyclopedias for Daily Use and Sancaituhui have alien land to themselves(專有) for the ideological purpose of Chinese World Order making a contribution to forming and reproducing ‘China.’ The strategy that these materials reveal the Chinese ideas of the World and Hua Yi through visual images and simplified texts shows an aspect of ‘imagology’.