안중근의거가 중국의 반제민족운동에 미친 영향

Abstract

Regarding the recognition of the Chinese people about the study of An Jung-geun’s patriotic deed, there was a tendency that it was focused on the positive view of the revolutionaries. That is, the study of the recognition of the constitutionalists who had different political view from the revolutionaries has been comparatively carelessly treated. Therefore there is a limit to the study of the wide range of the Chinese view about his patriotic deed. In fact, the Chinese constitutionalists had different view about his patriotic deed from that of the revolutionaries because they sought for different political ideologies. As the revolutionaries set a high value on An Jung-geun’s deed and advertised his way of assassination, they revealed Japanese invasion. The constitutionalists, compared to the tone of the revolutionaries, gave a bad account of his patriotic deed or took a neutral attitude as they judged him the same person as Ito Hirobumi. As the constitutionalists, seeking for a movement for a constitutional government based on Japan and pursuing a moderate reform, had an illusion of Japan, they criticized the way of assassination adopted by An Jung-geun and the revolutionaries. As the revolutionaries, taking this golden opportunity to advertise anti-Japanese sentiments and revolution right after his patriotic deed, revealed Japanese invasion and introduced the Korean history of national decay to their people, they tried to awaken the people to their crisis and influence public opinion of the national movement against imperialism. In the course of their advertisement, current-affair novels and new style comedies about An Jung-geun which were easily understood by the general public were exploited. His deed ideologically influenced the Yellow River revolt and Chinese Revolution in a way. But as his patriotic deed and the advertisement of the revolutionaries made the forces of reaction nervous and caused Japan and the government of Qing dynasty to strengthen their surveillance and oppression, Chinese Revolution would suffer a blow. Because of this, Seong-Gi Woong who played an active part in Northeast area, China was executed and the publication of the influential newspaper of the revolutionaries “Minwooilbo” was discontinued. The Chinese people respected An Jung-geun’s courage and patriotism right after his patriotic deed, however, they didn’t know who he was and the profound meaning of his deed because of lack of materials systematically presenting him and his deed. As the biographies of An Jung-geun, specially “An Jung-geun” written by Eun-Sik Park introduced his “The Orient Peace Thought” to the Chinese people, it made them understand that An Jung-geun was a hero in the world as well as in Korea and emphasized the importance of Korea-China relations. As they aroused sympathy among the Chinese people, they formed the ideological basis making them support Korea’s independence movement thereafter. As his patriotic deed attracted the Chinese people’s interest and sympathy, to some extent it influenced Korean patriots to form a close relationship with Chinese revolutionary figures and take part in a revolutionary party like “Namsa”. His patriotic deed continuously influenced the Chinese Revolution. When China was at a crisis as Yuan Shihk’ai and Northern warlords were in collusion with Japan, the Chinese people started to pay attention to the cause of Korea’s ruination before and after May Fourth Movement when anti-Japanese movements and rallies censuring traitors to their country came to a climax. As Jeong Won made the point that the traitors should be punished first before punishing Ito Hirobumi in his biography of An Jung-geun and impeached the traitors to Korea, he made an appeal to the Chinese people for punishing the Chinese traitors before the ruin of China. An Jung-geun as the symbol of patriotism continued to influence the Chinese racial movement against imperialism after May Fourth Movement and his patriotic deed as the textbook of anti-Japanese struggle continued to influence the Chinese people through a play, a lecture and others.