淸의 日本 漂流民 送還과 朝鮮의 對應 ― 1644년 韃靼 漂流 事件을 중심으로 ―

Abstract

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasty, the relations between Qing and Joseon became subtle. The Qing Dynasty used “Huairou(懷柔)” for all of the surrounding countries to prove its identity, while the Joseon constructed its own defense system in order to provide against the threats from Manchurians and Japanese. The occasion of Japanese ships drifting “tartar(韃靼)” in 1644 was in the environment described above. In this paper, it was argued that the investigation of this incident in the prior researches were too concentrated in the framework of “the relations between China and Japan”. The Qing Dynasty, with the intention to take Japan into its own ancestral system, rescued the Japanese drifters and send them back through Joseon. But it will be an overestimation if it is therefore believed that Qing Dynasty attached great importance to the relationship with Japan. In addition, regardless of the participation from Qing Dynasty in the repatriation, Joseon as a third country had worked hard to prevent the establishment of diplomatic relations between Qing Dynasty and Japan. And it stemmed from Joseon’s desire to simultaneously conduct diplomacy with the Qing and Japan without any demage of its own political system.