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초록

영어

This article examines how chang 瘴 or “miasma,” functioned as both a medical term and a cultural–spatial idiom. Existing scholarship has largely treated chang (C. zhang) either through retrospective diagnosis or through the south–oriented disease geography of imperial China. By drawing on medical compilations, official records, collected works, and geographic writings, this article shows how chang gradually became a versatile and usable concept. Rather than treating chang as a simple borrowing from the south of China, this article argues that the concept, though derived from Chinese regional and climatological discourses, was reconstructed within the Korean context. This process unfolded even as medical and literary texts continued to preserve inherited southern etiological templates. Over time, miasma attribution shifted from a broad southern orientation to more explicit administrative enumeration and, when it comes to late Chosŏn, to a stronger association with the southern maritime fringe. Miasmatic lands (changji 瘴地) should be understood not as an environmental condition but as a historically produced designation shaped by knowledge circulation, governance, and embodied movement.

목차

Abstract
Introduction
Miasma in Medical Books : Knowledge Transmission and the Adoption of Chang
Tongŭi pogam and the Canonization of Knowledge about Miasma
The Social Life of Miasma : Official Records and Private Narratives
Official Records : Miasma as Administrative Knowledge and Penal Geography
Private Records : Exile Writing, Travel, and the Experience of Miasma
Spatio-temporal Patterns of Miasma Attribution
Koryŏ: A Southern Tilt in Miasma Attribution
Early Chosŏn: From a Southern Tilt to Multi–Regional Enumeration
Late Chosŏn: The Sea Miasma Belt
Explaining Shifts : Knowledge, Practice, and Regional Hierarchy
Miasma: Between Ecology and Socio–Spatial Practice
How Chŏlla Became the Locus of Miasma
Conclusion
References

키워드

저자

• Hao LI [ Peking University ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  Acta Koreana

• 간기

  반년간

• pISSN

  1520-7412

• 수록기간

  1998~2026

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재,SCOPUS,A&,HCI

• 십진분류

  KDC 912 DDC 951