≪함빈록(咸賓錄)≫: 명대(明代) 지리서에 재현된 이역(異域) = Xianbin lu: the Way How China Regulates Foreign Countries

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

As stated in the title, Xianbin lu, this piece discusses the discourse of China-centered history of tributes that all foreigners of the neighboring countries came to China as guests to donate tributes spontaneously and the purpose of these tributes were not to benefit China but to console themselves. Since the Zhou Dynasty, China has repetitively told in the historical and geographical texts the Chinese view of ideal ‘tianxia’ and this imaginary view of ‘tianxia’ combined with the Confucian ethics to make the foreign countries appear to the ancient people as the barbaric lands where China’s ritualism has not reached.
The author of Xianbin lu created a specific discourse of his objective view of China and the foreign countries-a virtual space including the peoples and countries outside China-using a variety of epic tools. The creation of discourse within the scope of ‘geographical text’ reaffirmed the traditional Chinese Sinocentrism and justified the ideology that conveyed its subjective universality. This study analyzed the epic tools adopted by the author of Xianbin lu to discuss his objective view of Sinocentrism based on this historical ideologies of the Ming Dynasty and make it a universally justified logic of China, and attempted to discover their significance.