地方官과 先祖 文集 刊行

Abstract

About twenty five percent of books published by the provincial government offices during Joseon Dynasty were miscellany. Also, considerable amount of existing miscellanies were published by provincial government offices. Such facts imply that miscellany publication led by local officials occupied an important position in the publication culture of Joseon. When an offspring was appointed to provincial government office, he led his ancestor's miscellany publication and when an offspring was not appointed, he would ask some local officials, who could be got in touch through blood ties or academic relations for the publication. It was a custom widely practiced all through Joseon period. This study tried to examine how the ancestor's miscellany publications by local officials were given official value and how the private purpose, or ancestor's miscellany publication, was achieved by the very public officials in the very public space. Though it, this study showed that the ancestor's miscellany publication by local officials was a kind of formal practices and the private familism to enhance ancestor's works acted on such practice, in combination. Joseon government had encouraged miscellany publication to preserve the writings of sages. Sometimes, kings dispatched intentionally the descendants as local officials to publish his ancestor's miscellany and ordered the descendants who were in office to collect posthumous works for publication. At King Seongjong period, king read the posthumous works by himself and ordered Gyoseogwan(校書館) to publish miscellanies, which became the moment to change the miscellany publication carried out in private individually into national system. By the way, the publication and distribution of miscellany in capital city, because of its limitation, needed the resources and labors of provinces, which brought about the prevalence of miscellany publication in local government offices. As the public necessety of sage's works preservation and the private purpose of ancestor's works preservation answered each other, the miscellany publication by local officials had become a traditional practice in administrative districts of every level. Every local official, to say nothing of provincial governors including district magistrates, published miscellany. Because it needed much money, common household or individuals could not bear the publication cost. In some cases, the descendants, who planned to publish the miscellany of ancestor, collected and compiled posthumous works with waiting to be appointed to local government office and set about publication as soon as they are appointed. It was because they could input their salaries and mobilize the material resources and labors of the offices. However, in case that the financial states of offices were not good owing to bad harvest and other reasons, the descendants suspended their 'private business' or reduced the scale of publication. It means the idea that miscellany publication was a private business did surely exist in the minds of local officials. This study found several circumstances which give support to the idea that local officials' miscellany publication is a private business. When a local official was transferred to other province during publication planning stage or in the course of publication work, the work was not took over by his successor but resumed by himself at his new post. Judging from the expression 'published on my salary' in a record about miscellany publication, local officials revealed their own thinking about the publication: 'miscellany publication was a private publication'. There are many evidences that local officials tried to keep the printing blocks of miscellanies in their hometowns, not in the region where miscellanies were published. In particular, they tried to move the printing blocks to their base even though they recorded the provincial government office as the place of publication. Such fact backs up the idea of local officials about miscellany publication. Attention should be given to the fact local officials did not publish the miscellany of the men of their location first but the man who had private relations with them. Miscellany publications were decided mainly by master-disciple relation tied with blood, marriage and academy relation. In such a complex relation, local officials seemed to have the 'family' concept in a broad sense. In miscellany publication, their familism thought was expressed in a natural way.