洪敬謨의 行人 의식과 중국 인식

초록

China is the only country sharing the border with Korea and both countries have been keeping the inseparable correlation in the history. China was the friendly country with the extremely close and familiar culture to Korea, but at the same time, was the dominant power with the very great territory. It is the unchanging truth in the history that the relationship with China is directly linked to the security of Korea. How to understand and recognize China has been always the outstanding issue in Korea in the history. However, Chine is very big and complicated and has long history so that it is not easily understood. This paper investigated the awareness on China and meaning of China observed in the poetry and prose written by Hong Gyeongmo(1774～1851) during his journey twice to China as the text. Hong Gyeongmo thought the most critical mission as the envoy was to look around and record the politics and customs in the neighboring countries and was very active in implementing such missions. Furthermore, he objectified China on the basis of scientific knowledge and foresaw the status of the world with the long-range view. Such awareness was observed in detail in his poetry and prose. His attitude as the envoy and awareness on China are still effective. His effort to identify the overall structure with the long-range view and keep the objective relationship with other countries, his attitude to fulfill the responsibility as the envoy and spirit to look around the politics in other countries and identify and record the status are exemplary even today. In particular, it is urgently required to secure the intellectual distance to great and dominant neighboring countries and secure the position to look around them.

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