이육사의 「중국의 신국민운동 검토」 분석

Abstract

This paper is the first analysis of Yi Yook-sa(이육사)’s “The Review on the ‘New Peoples Movement’ in China”(「중국의 신국민운동 검토」). “The Review on the ‘New Peoples Movement’ in China” is a new resource, and therefore it is meaningful to expand and supplement research data. More important than that, this new material can be an opportunity to examine Yi’s political consciousness. The Yi’s review consisted of items such as ‘introduction’, ‘the cultural construction movement’, ‘the new life movement’, ‘the scientific movement’, ‘the literacy movement’, and ‘the national economic construction movement’ in china. Yi Yook-sa continues a very negative and bitter criticism of the various forms of the ‘New Peoples Movement’ led by the Chiang Kai- shek(蔣介石) and the Nanjing government. This is because the fundamental motivation and purpose of the movement is, first and foremost, that Chiang Kai-shek and his followers decide to remove their opposition and strengthen their power. In Yi’s review on current affairs in China, including “The Review on the ‘New Peoples Movement’ in China”, what is most remarkable is the criticism of the violent anti-communism of Chiang Kai-shek and ‘the Kuomintang of China’(國民黨). Yi stated that the ultimate goal of some movements in China was to overthrow the ‘Chinese Soviet’ through the completion of the annihilation of communists. This perception of Yi’s is the result of his political consciousness that accepts socialism. But at the same time it can be understood that his nationalism is partially projected. That is because it can be understood as stopping the war in the nation and urging national cooperation for the anti- Japanese struggle.