중국 영화 속의 중화주의(中華主義) 양상 고찰-영화 <孔子>를 중심으로

Abstract

Movie sometimes has been actively used as political propaganda because it is one of genre in communion with public. In socialist countries, such as China, in which intervention and interference of state power being explicited widely, political messages in movies have been reflected in any forms. Mass production of the recent films on the subject of Sinocentrism is a good example. Historically, in China where confucianism has been settled as state religion since Dong zhong-shu, so-called Sinocentrism has been applied in the center of manas dominating international order to establish the relationship of neighbor countries. In particular, it is recently a discerned atmosphere that China's vertical rise of global status in many aspects has made Chinese domination and interference take for granted. Reflecting this trend, recent films with themes of culture supremacy, grand unification, and heroism have been poured into the world these days. Since the late 90s, so-called 'national Studies fever (國學熱)’ that booms to reexhibit China’s traditional ideas proceeded in the maximized form has given birth to the movie <Confucius>. The Confucius who was once perceived negatively by the Communist Party of China as a vestige of feudal society is shed new light on and now he comes back to the heroic shape and mobilizes national consciousness dispelling the current crisis of moral civilization. Apparently, Confucius meets the sign of 'China' the most, but what we should not overlook is that he has been already sublimated to the absolute value of East Asian civilization and spirit through historical process so he is no longer tied to ethnic myth.