한국인의 항일투쟁과 현대 중국의 한국인 제재 시가 창작

Abstract

In China, people were in a crisis of life or death between 1917 when the Literary Revolution started and 1945 when Japan collapsed. Its nearest neighbor “Joseon” became a colony of Japan, and China would have been the next. During these unique years, Chinese authors created works related to Korean people beyond the scope of simple emotional expressions about them. Growing up with close connections to politics in general in addition to the two nations’ relations that needed each other, these Chinese writers reflected their certain hopes and designs in such works. “Modern Chinese poems about Korean people” hold a place in modern Chinese literature. Previous studies on the topic usually discussed the mainstream discourses of modern Chinese literature represented by “anti-Japanese,” “friendship between China and Korea,” “weak and small people,” “internationalism” and “humanitarianism.” Researches conducted in this viewpoint had structural issues. That is, while Chinese writers receive attention for their ideas and artistic views, Korean people they depict are treated as objects or passive elements. Modern Chinese works were created about Korean people including poems not only by Chinese writers’ efforts in response to the national crisis, but also by Koreans’ roles to promote their revival after their country fell. It was an outcome of Korea-China interactions that Chinese writers created modern Chinese poems reflecting their extremely favorable emotions about the people of the Korean Peninsula, which were not found in the literary history of China before. When analyzing “modern Chinese poems about Korean people,” it is important to recognize that if there had not been Korean people’s anti-Japanese struggles, poems depicting their anti-Japanese struggles and containing admiration and encouragement for their struggles would have disappeared from the literary history of China. Trying to figure out what was not discovered in old researches based on the mainstream discourses of modern Chinese literature, the investigator discussed connections between Korean people’s anti-Japanese struggles and Chinese poets’ creation of poems about Korean people with a focus on “March 1 Movement,” “Yun Bong-gil’s heroic deed,” and “anti-Japanese struggle of Korean Volunteers Corps and Korea Liberation Army.”