『滿洲源流考』 部族편의 내용과 성격

Abstract

Researches on Manchu Origins was written from the perspectives of the Manchu people beyond the Han China-centered view. It shows the strong attachment to the territorial and tribal issues. The contents of the book include the geneology from Sushen, Euploo, Mohe, Balhae, Jurchen, finally to the Manchu people in a timely order. The book proclaims that the establishment of Qing dynasty was the outcome of political and cultural evolutionary and developmental processes of the Manchu people over the 1000 years in the Manchuria. In particular, this book suggests the founder of Jin dynasty was a figure from Silla or Goryeo, attempting to bundle Buyeo, Three Hans, Baeje, Silla and Balhae together with the people of Manchu in order to emphasize the similarities between them, based on the literature and the results of a linguistic analysis. The lack of objectivity in a linguistic analysis of comparing between Manchu and Mongolian languages has led to the question of the reliability of such analyses. Another problem of this book is that there was no distinction between contemporaneous primary documents and secondary documents written in the later period and all the references were quoted without a critical review. It seems that the aim of Researches on Manchu Origins based on deliberately chosen references was to establish the legitimacy of Qing Dynasty. Researches on Manchu Origins located the places of Three Hans, Silla and Backje on the Manchu region and accepted the assumption that Baekje ruled over the west of River Liao. In addition, it also locates the position of Gyerim of Silla on the Jirin area based on the linguistic analogies as well as stating the locations of Baekje and Silla’s core region in the Manchuria. It is seriously flawed because not only other reliable evidence in many critical literatures were missed but also the results of such linguistic analyses cannot be verified. Identifying Dongyi communal ideology appears to have intended to emphasize the legitimacy of the Manchu people and fill the temporal and spatial gap in their history by adopting Three Hans, Silla and Baekje, which is a part of Korean history. On the other hand exclusion of Goguryeo with the independent world view in this book is thought to have been due to the fact that the existence of Gogyryeo could not be explained throughout a linguistic analysis on the issues of tribal ethnicity, rule-subjugation relations and the identical names between Goguryeo and Goryeo. Gojoseon may have been the same case.