중화인민공화국 학계의 고구려 유민 연구 검토

Abstract

Examination on the Scholarships of the People’s Republic of Chinaon the Diaspora of Koguryo People after its CollapsePARK Seung-bumOne of the reasons that scholars from the People’s Republic of China argued that the history ofKoguryo belongs to Chinese history is Koguryo people’s whereabouts after its collapse. First ofall, their argument is based on the fact that remaining people of Koguryo were absorbed into thepopulation of Tang, Silla, Tujue, and Balhae. According to their study, the number of Koguryopeople who moved into Tang was 300,000, 100,000 to Silla, less than 10,000 to Tujue, and finally200,000 to Balhae. Secondly, when Koguryo was destroyed, the number of households wasabout 697,000. Among them, there were diverse groups of minority people including HanChinese. Thus, actual Koguryo households were less than 150,000, or 750,000 people. Thirdly,Koguryo people who moved to Tang territory was treated like Han Chinese, receiving a highofficial statue under Tang dynasty. Finally, they dispute that Koguryo people who remained inKoguryo territory disappeared within several decades after the destroy of Koguryo. In this paper, I explored several reasons why the arguments of Chinese scholarships from thePeople’s Republic of China cannot be supported. Firstly, the number of Koguryo people whowere taken to Tang can be assumed 300,000 at largest. But, a large number of them moved totheir original settlementafter all. And, 697,000 households of Koguryo at the time of the destroywere mostly Koguryo people. This is proved by Lelang written wooden slips recently discoveredin North Korea. The written records divide a large number of Koguryo households into a small