We cannot see our faces without a medium such as a mirror. This means that we become aware of ourselves firstly through others. Here, orientalism is a good example of the way of European understanding of the ‘Orient’. On the other hand, ‘Sino-centralism’(Chines Order) ruled the Asian dynasty in the modern age. When the Ch’ing dynasty was replaced with the Ming dynasty, to the intellectuals of the Joseon dynasty, it means the ‘Barbarians’ had conquered the ‘Chinese Order’. With this turning-point, they realized their role as the protectors of ‘Chinese Order’ in placed of the Ming dynasty. This self-realization is continuously ascertained and reconstructed through the discovery of ‘others’. The “Yoelha Ilgi” and “Yoenhang Ilgi” are very famous records of travel to China in the Joseon dynasty. The former writer Park Jiwon is known well as a realist and many studies put the focus on painting him as the representative of realism. Away from this point, this article wants to point out the Park Jiwon discovered himself through the process of realizing others. In his discovery of China a dynamism between knowing and seeing in concealed. Observing ‘Others’ triggered the effect to objectify as an image observing himself as a being who is observed back. This dynamism played a certain role in allowing the possibility of self-criticism among the intellectuals of the Joseon dynasty.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.