The Clash of Histories in East Asia

o 저자

Song Kiho

o 사양

46배판 | 457쪽

o 분류

외국어도서

o 정가

20,000원

o 발간일

2010년 4월

o ISBN

978-89-6187-177-8

저자

Song Kiho

도서 소개

In .January 2007, China’s Northeast Project came to a close. This five year-long project, which began in February 2002, had been a major source of controversy and tension between South Korea and China. Today, just months after the project concluded, the dust seems to have already settled, and the project is quickly fading from the spotlight it once occupied. The whole matter is in fact rapidly and silently receding to the background, with no talk of a retrospective, not to mention an attempt to glean lessons for the future.

As the spring term was drawing to an end in 2007, I asked students in my undergraduate history class to write a short essay on the course they had just completed. One of the essays that caught my attention was by a freshman. He wrote, “Through this course, I got to learn about the Northeast Project, something I had never heard of before.” This young man had never heard of an affair that was media fodder for fully five years. Unbelievable as this may be, the student’s ignorance points to an all too familiar fact about Korean education: it has lost touch with society.

This book was originally written as a textbook for an undergraduate history course titled “Disputes on Ancient Korean History in East Asia.” Although the title emphasizes ancient history, and mirrors the main period which concerned the Northeast Project, the course deals comprehensively with all recent debates among the three East Asian countries of South Korea, China, and Japan concerning the history and territory of Korea. My modest hope is that the book may serve as a primer on this subject, thus far never explored or addressed in any meaningful fashion by other texts.

차례

Chapter 1. Nationalism and History Education
1. Japanese Right-wing Extremism and History Textbooks
2. The Resurgence of China and Patriotic History Education
3. Nationalist Histories of South Korea and North Korea
Further Reading 1: Egregious Statements by Japanese Political Leadership
Further Reading 2: “Freedom of Thought” and Japanese Democracy - Toward a Constructive Dialogue between Intellectuals and Concerned Citizens of South Korea and Japan

Chapter 2. Territorial Disputes and History
1. Territorial Disputes in East Asia
2. The Mount Baekdu Border Marker and Gando
3. The Territorial Status of Dokdo and the Naming of the East Sea/Sea of Japan
4. The Russian Maritime Province and Korean History
Further Reading : Takeshima and Dokdo

Chapter 3. Controversies over Korean History
1. Colonial History and Postcolonial Revisionism - Japan and the Two Koreas
2. Colonial Exploitation vs. Colonial Modernization - Korean History and the Economic History of Korea
3. Particularity and Universality in Korean History - The United States and Korea 4. Gaya and Imna - Korea and Japan

Chapter 4. China’s Northeast Project and the System of Korean History
1. The Northeast Project and Its Historical Perspective
2. The Background of the Northeast Project
3. Manchuria and Korean History

Chapter 5. The Chinese Territorial View and Concept of Ethnic Identity
1. The World View in Ancient China and the Concept of Huayi
2. The Modern Chinese World View
3. Views from Outside China

Chapter 6. Chinese Perceptions 1: Korean People, Gojoseon, Buyeo, Balhae
1. Manchurian Tribes and the Formation of Korean Ethnicity
2. Gojoseon and the Four Han Commanderies, Buyeo, and Northern Okjeo
3. Balhae
Further Reading : Is Balhae An Ancient Chinese Polity?

Chapter 7. Chinese Perceptions 2: Goguryeo
1. The Chinese Perception of Goguryeo
2. Principal Chinese Arguments
Further Reading : A few Issues in Historical Research on Goguryeo

Chapter 8. In Search of Solutions to Controversies
1. South Korean Reactions to the Northeast Project
2. Post-Nationalist Views
3. Goguryeo, the No-Man’s Land of History
4. Views of the Shared History School
5. Other Views

Chapter 9. The Identity of Korean History
1. Historical Self-Perception
2. The Perception of Borders and Territory
3. Korea’s Own World View
4. The Future of Historical Research
Further Reading : Goguryeo Controversy Seen by Foreign Scholars