동북아해역에서 근대학술 성립의 양상 ― 일본 중국학의 탄생과 현재

Abstract

Since the modern era, material and human exchanges have begun to be frequent in the Northeast Asian sea region. Of course, before the modern era, there was no exchange through the sea. From an academic standpoint, it is one of these cultural exchanges that Chinese traditional scholarship, Hangaku(漢學), is embraced on the Korean Peninsula and Japan. In the Tokugawa shogunate, the doctrines[teachings] of Chu-tzu introduced in earnest in Japan came in through the Joseon and mainland China and grew rapidly in a short period of time. It was also accepted that the Western studies represented by Rangaku(蘭學). In this situation, Japan, which faced the Meiji era, needed Kokugaku(國學) as an ideology of the nation state. In the process of the birth of this Kokugaku, the Western studies and Hangaku became antagonistic. The Japanese intellectuals who tried to establish a Kokugaku as a modern scholarship are in a worry about what kind of relationship should be established with what Hangaku had accepted before modern times and what contents should be included. This was connected with the problem of establishing Chinese studies in Japan as a modern discipline, and in this process, it came to refer to Western Synology. Japanese Chinese Studies was born in this process, and it is reaching to the present. This paper examines the historical process of the formation of Japanese Chinese studies and examines what Chinese studies are aiming at in Japan at present. This is expected to give some implications for our future Chinese studies.