19세기 중국과 동아시아의 문화 간 커뮤니케이션 ― 위원(魏源)의 《해국도지(海國圖志)》를 중심으로

Abstract

Haiguotuzhi(海國圖志) is a book compiled by Wei Yuan, who is a historian and geographer at the end of the Qing Dynasty. It contains the geography, history, politics, economics, religion, education, science, guidance, national characteristics in East Asian Countries in the 19th Century and the understand of the nineteenth-century Chinese of the East and the West. The purpose of this paper is to examine how Chinese in the 19th Century think about history, politics, economics, literature, culture, and military systems in East Asia countries through the East Asian records contained in the Haiguotuzhi(海國圖志). Until the middle of the 19th century, East Asia had developed its economy and culture, mainly in China. Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, and Japan began to be acknowledged for their presence only after receiving a seal from the Chinese government, these countries have offered tribute to the Chinese emperor in the sense of subordination, and kept the relationship. In the 15th century, European explorers conquered the sea, and capitalist plunder began, as information about East Asian countries including China was transmitted to European society by Christian missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries, East Asia began to be invaded by European colonialists. China, which lost the Opium War in 1840, analyzed the cause of defeat, Wei Yuan, who believed that ‘Controlling Foreigners by Foreigners’, and ‘to learn the advanced military technology from the foreigners and use it to fight against the invasion of them’, introduced Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar and Japan as a success model for making a rich China.