≪서역문견록≫과 18세기 청대의 서역 인식

Abstract

The biggest issue in Chinese history in the 18th century was the Qing Dynasty's expulsion of Zungar(准噶爾) from Mongolia and taking over a vast area of power. As the Qing Dynasty conquered Zungar, the so-called "West(西域)" including Mongolia returned to Chinese territory, forcing China to drive out its long-time hostile enemy, Zungar, and secure today's wide border. Since then, the conquest and territorial expansion of the Qing Dynasty have been recorded as great and sacred achievements in historical records and have been deeply imprinted on the minds of the Qing Dynasty people. At that time, it was not the military power that made Jungar a negative image and recognized the conquest of Qing as a "holy war," but the power of various ‘strategic books(方略)’ and historical text. In particular, in the case of personal writings, historical texts, it was possible to secure a wider range of readers than official history books by delivering messages emotionally and attractively as literary expressions. Xiyuwenjianlu recorded how the Qing Dynasty created the order of the empire in the new territory by conquering Jungar and making the West, and naturally conveyed political ideology to readers through literary descriptions and formed a sense of community of "Chinese." In this paper, I tried to examine how the Qing dynasty differentiated the West, rationalized the history of violent conquest, justified its dominance, and ultimately converted the material phenomenon of Western(西域) conquest into an epistemological system.