‘실천’으로서의 ‘동아시아’ 혹은 ‘내셔널 히스토리’의 저편

Abstract

Recently the discourse of “East Asia” getting be a popular word in the east-asian intelectual boundary. A chinese intelectual named Sun Ge had published her book concerned Japanese Thinker Takeuchi Yoshimi in Japan and Continental China make a big impact at a time in both country. This kind of synchronism occurred in east-asian intelectual boundery is a very unique and worth consideration. But the concept of “east asia” is not so clear at some aspect. I have intepreted the cocept of ‘east asia’ as a attitude or praxis being quoted from Sun Ge and Takeuchi. Beside, I emphasize taking the concept of ‘east asis’ is so helpful to us overcoming the pitfall of universality and peculiarity. Pointing up ‘east asia’ as a attitude both signify that we, asian intelectual have no cosciousness on the Western method already restricted our knowledge and we need some urgent ‘mutual-comparison’. That is a stratagized cocept for us to dismantle the westernised method of thinking what is dependent on category of universality and peculiarity. In this sense, stratigising a concept of ‘east-asia’ can be an alternative idea for post-colonial discourse. For, in asian area, post-colonial theory itself has been applied within colonialized usage. Some critics are doubtful in ‘east-asia’ so that din`t reinforce the theory of minority. But ‘de-natinalization’ of national history in rivalry between some east asian countries is a most momentous mission of critical intelectuals nowadays.